AuthorNettler, Gwynn
TitleExplaining crime / Gwynn Nettler
Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1978
Edition 2nd ed
Descript x, 418 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Crimes and other wrongs -- Concern with crime -- Definition of crime -- Counting crime--officially -- Counting crime--unofficially : Part one: Tests and observations -- Counting crime--unofficially : Part two: Victims and confessions -- Social location of serious crime -- Questions and answers -- Rational crime -- Does crime pay?--testing rationality -- Crime and conflict -- Structures of opportunity -- Subcultures and crime -- Definitions of situations and crime: Differential association -- Definitions of situations and crime: Societal reaction -- Sociopsychological explanations: Control theory -- Criminogenic conditions


SUBJECT

  1. Criminology

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Political Science Library364 N475E 1978 CHECK SHELVES