"This exceptional and provocative volume endeavors to shed light on the patterns of behavior known as obsessive relational intrusion (ORI) and stalkin...
The public perception is that juvenile crime is out-of- hand and that no one can do anything about it. Research, however, shows that a mere 8% of juve...
Alternating between textbook-style chapters and readings by criminologists, this volume begins by discussing the typology approach to crime, proceeds ...
This uniquely comprehensive criminology textbook provides instructors and students the best of both worlds a text with carefully selected accom...
Tracker presents former police officer Maurice Godwin’s method of psychological and geographic profiling which is revolutionizing the way police...
Dunn (sociology, Souther Illinois U.-Carbondale) explores women who are being coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates, things these wome...
Agnew (Emory U.) introduced students to one of the leading theories of crime: that people engage in crime because they experience strains or stressors...
Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One po...
Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance focuses on behavior, beliefs, an...
Using violent offenders as their primary focus, Merz-Perez (executive director, Human Society of Shelby County, Alabama) and Heide (criminology, U. of...
Offender Profiling synthesizes and organizes the best thinking on crime assessment and offender profiling, produced by a number of eminent scholars fr...
Recipient of Choice Magazine's 1991 Outstanding Academic Book Award Why do some individuals pursue crime as a lifestyle? After years of incarceration...