Crime is Not the Problem

Crime is Not the Problem

Author: Franklin E. Zimring

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0195131053

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Publisher Fact Sheet Offers a startling new look at crime & violence in America that will reshape the debate about crime control.


Crime, Disorder and Community Safety

Crime, Disorder and Community Safety

Author: Roger Matthews

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415242301

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These essays explore the theory, politics and practice associated with the changing nature of crime prevention, disorder and community safety and assess their significance in relation to a number of specific groups, such as women.


State Crime

State Crime

Author: Dawn Rothe

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0813549000

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Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions.


Crime and Networks

Crime and Networks

Author: Carlo Morselli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1134643322

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This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from social network analysis. Crime and Networks is the only book of its kind that looks at the use of networks in understanding crime, and can be used for advanced undergraduate and beginner’s graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology.


Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior

Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior

Author: Curt R. Bartol

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1412992443

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Featuring ten new articles by experts in the field, this up-to-date reader emphasizes the ways that forensic psychologists apply psychological knowledge, concepts, and principles on a day-to-day basis. Drawing on cutting-edge research to demonstrate the ways that forensic psychology has contributed to the understanding of criminal behavior and crime prevention, the Third Edition addresses key topics in each of the five major subareas of the field—police psychology, legal psychology, the psychology of crime and delinquency, victimology and victim services, and correctional psychology.


Perspectives on Evil and Violence

Perspectives on Evil and Violence

Author: Arthur G. Miller

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1317759117

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Within the past decade, there has been an intensified concern about pervasive and serious harmdoing that has drawn the attention of researchers. The primary objective of this special issue is to consider the contributions of social and personality psychology toward understanding the perception of sustained harmdoing and to assess the implications (theoretical, methodological, and philosophical) for the field of undertaking research in this area. The authors represented in this issue have each made significant contributions to the study of harmdoing and evil, and their articles deal with a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on harmdoing.