Overview
- Discusses current research in the sociology of crime and deviance and incorporates the author's suggestions for future directions
- Includes chapters explaining causes of crime, from an innovative theoretical and methodological approach
- Offers contemporary perspectives of issues related to crime and deviance by leading scholars and researchers
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Methodological Issues in Crime Research by Alan Lizotte
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Explanations of Crime by Marvin D. Krohn
Keywords
- Sociology of Crime and Deviance
- Methodological Issues in Crime Research
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Biosocial Criminology
- Self Control Theory
- Developmental and Life Course Theory
- Desistance of Crime
- Crime in Schools
- Family Violence
- Preventing Crime
- Cybercrime and Prevention
- Green Criminology
- Crime and Unemployment
- Terrorism and Crime
- Mental Health Issues and Crime
- Legal and Illegal Gun Ownership in America
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gina Penly Hall, Ph.D. has published numerous articles and book chapters over the years. At the core of her substantive interests are the theoretical ideas of social ecology, with her research focusing on how human behavior is a product of how individuals interact with their environments. She currently works with youth in a school setting as a Learning Strategist where she coordinates and implements academic and behavioral interventions.
Alan Lizotte Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, The University at Albany. He is co-principal investigator on the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing thirty year longitudinal study of juvenile delinquency and drug use covering three generations of subjects. His substantive interests include illegal firearms ownership and use and developmental criminology. In 2003, he and his coauthors were awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Hindelang Award for the book Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective. Professor Lizotte is an American Society of Criminology Fellow.
Nicole Hendrix is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. She earned her doctoral degree from the University at Albany. Her research has bridged the academic and professional realms within the field of criminal justice and included a number of projects involving agencies and institutions within criminal justice across Virginia and in other states. Her research interests varies as she applies her research methodology skills to a diverse array of topics and projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook on Crime and Deviance
Editors: Marvin D. Krohn, Nicole Hendrix, Gina Penly Hall, Alan J. Lizotte
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20779-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20778-6Published: 09 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20781-6Published: 09 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20779-3Published: 28 August 2019
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 639
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general