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Crime types and criminals

Summary: From the Publisher: Crime and Criminals is an essentials introduction to the study of criminology, focusing on crime types in particular. The book aims to provide broader coverage of all major crime types, as well as brief coverage of research methods and theory. The book can be used as both a stand alone and supplementary text in courses such as introduction to criminology, crime and society, deviant behavior, crime profiling, and many other seminars within the criminology and criminal justice discipline. Unlike many of the current criminology books on the market, this is a brief book that really talks about all kinds of crime and criminals in detail in a way to capture and retain student interest.

Record details

ISBN: 9781412964791
ISBN: 1412964792
Physical Description: print
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-445) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- Criminology -- Fads and fashions in crime -- Crime file 1-1: FBI's ten most wanted fugitives -- Emergence of criminology -- Crime and deviance -- Sumner's types of norms -- Mala in se and mala prohibita -- Social change and the emergence of law -- Crime file 1-2: Crimes of the twentieth century -- Consensus versus conflict model of law -- Crime and criminal law -- Who defines crime? criminological definitions -- Crime problem -- Cost of crime -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions -- 2: General Characteristics Of Crime And Criminals -- Caution in interpreting crime data -- International variations in crime -- Prevalence of crime -- Trends in crime -- Age and crime -- Crime file 2-1: What is the relationship between age and crime? -- Gender differences in criminality -- Social class and crime -- Race and crime -- Crime file 2-2: Racial profiling -- Crime file 2-3: Native Americans and crime -- Regional variation in crime -- Urban/rural differences -- Institutions and crime -- Family and crime -- Education and crime -- Religion and crime -- War and crime -- Economy and crime -- Mass media and crime -- Criminal typologies -- Crime types 2-1: Some sociological typologies of criminal behavior -- Critique of typologies -- Defense of typologies -- Criminal behavior systems -- Theoretical range and criminological explanation -- Global fallacy -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions -- 3: Overview Of Theory In Criminology -- Major theoretical approaches -- Demonological theory--Classical and neo-classical theory -- Crime file 3-1: Justifications for punishment -- Ecological theory -- Forerunners of modern criminological thought -- Economic theory -- Positivism -- Biological theory -- Psychological theory -- Crime file 3-2: Insanity defense -- Mainstream sociological theory -- Critical sociological theory -- Integrated theories of crime -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions -- 4: Violent Crime -- History of violence in the United States -- Murder and mayhem -- Types of murders: multicide -- Crime types 4-1: Types of multiple murders: multicide -- Crime types 4-2: Types of serial murders -- Crime file 4-1: Virginia Tech massacre -- Crime file 4-2: DC snipers, BTK killer, and the Red Lake massacre -- Victim precipitation -- Crime types 4-3: Types of victims -- Typology of violent offenders -- Crime types 4-4: Types of violent offenders -- Legal aspects -- Homicide and assault statistics -- Patterns and trends in violent crime -- Workplace violence -- School violence -- Crime file 4-3: Deadly lessons: the secret service study of school shooters -- Guns -- Sexual assault -- Acquaintance rape -- Amir vs Brownmiller -- Rape as a violent act -- Crime types 4-5: Types of rapes and rapists -- Robbery -- Crime file 4-4: Name that bank robber -- Conklin's typology of robbers -- Crime types 4-6: Types of robbers -- Domestic violence -- Child abuse -- Spouse abuse -- Elder abuse -- Kidnapping -- Crime file 4-5: Bogeyman: online sexual predators -- Criminal careers of violent offenders -- Culture of violence -- Subculture of violence -- Career criminals/violent predators -- Crime types 4-7: Types of career criminals -- Societal reaction -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions -- 5: Property Crime: Occasional, Conventional And Professional -- Occasional property crimes -- Shoplifting -- Crime types 5-1: Types of shoplifters -- Vandalism -- Crime types 5-2: Types of vandals -- Crime file 5-1: Graffiti -- Motor vehicle theft -- Crime types 5-3: Types of auto theft -- Check forgery -- Crime types 5-4: Types of check forgers -- Conventional property crimes -- Burglary -- Crime types 5-5: Types of burglars -- Fencing operations -- Stings -- Larceny/theft -- Arson: a special-category offense -- Crime types 5-6: Types of arson -- Criminal careers of occasional and conventional property criminals -- Crime types 5-7: Occasional vs conventional criminals -- Societal reaction -- Professional crime -- Concept of "professional crime" -- Characteristics of professional crime -- Argot -- Model of professional crime -- Edelhertz's typology -- Crime types 5-8: Examples from Edelhertz's (1970) categories of white collar crimes (professional crime) -- Scams -- Big cons -- Maurer's the big con -- Identity theft -- Ponzi schemes -- Pyramid schemes -- Religious cons -- Crime file 5-2: Emerging patterns of professional crime -- Boosters -- Crime file 5-3: Shoplifting -- Cannons -- Professional burglars -- Box man -- Professional fence -- Crime types 5-9: Types of fences -- Paper hangers -- Crime file 5-4: Intellectual property theft -- Crime file 5-5: Busting the biggest band of cable pirates in US history -- Professional robbers -- Professional arsonists -- Professional auto theft rings -- Crime file 5-6: Car cloning: a new twist on an old crime -- Professional killers -- Criminal careers of professionals -- Societal reaction -- Summary -- Key concepts -- Review questions.