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Updated Edition of a Best-Seller!
Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences moves readers beyond a commonsense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. The Seventh Edition of the authors' clear, accessible, and thoroughly revised text covers traditional and contemporary theory within a larger sociological and historical context. It includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.
Author: J. Robert Lilly, Francis T. Cullen, Richard A. Ball
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781506387307
ISBN10: 1506387306
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Sociology | General
Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences moves readers beyond a commonsense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. The Seventh Edition of the authors' clear, accessible, and thoroughly revised text covers traditional and contemporary theory within a larger sociological and historical context. It includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.
Author: J. Robert Lilly, Francis T. Cullen, Richard A. Ball
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781506387307
ISBN10: 1506387306
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Sociology | General