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Deviance and Crime: Theory, Research?

The authors (of Canada's U. of Ontario Institute of Technology and York U.) originally intended this book as the third edition of The Wrong Stuff: In ...

Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior

The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Indeed, even such few academic...

Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior

Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior fundamentally questions the way most criminologists attempt to explain, let alone ameliorate the problem of...

Psychiatric Justice

Szasz troubles the dark, still waters of psychiatry and the law. He peeps beneath the crazy quilt of federal and state procedures which render impoten...

Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective

This long-standing anthology presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a social phenomenon consisting of a ...

Of Crime and Criminality: The Use of Theory in Everyday Life

This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theo...

Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science, and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness

It is hard enough in many cases simply figuring out whether a person has committed an antisocial act. It is harder still to determine the extent to wh...

Politics of Deviance

Her attempts to revive the sociology of deviant stymied by the academic culture, Hendershott (sociology, U. of San Diego) writes about how the topic w...

Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence

Childhood is ideally a time of safety, marked by freedom from the economic, sexual, and political demands that later become part of adult life. For ma...

Mass Murder in the United States

Mass Murder in the United States is an excellent complementary text for a variety of courses: deviance and social problems courses, seminars on in...

Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency

Academics in psychiatry and psychology, clinicians and administrators working in mental health and behavioral health, and researchers in post traumati...

Nine Lives

An authority on gender and crime provides an account of the connection among adolescent masculinities, the body, peer abuse in schools, and violence. ...

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