Criminal

"This exceptional and provocative volume endeavors to shed light on the patterns of behavior known as obsessive relation...

The public perception is that juvenile crime is out-of- hand and that no one can do anything about it. Research, however...

Alternating between textbook-style chapters and readings by criminologists, this volume begins by discussing the typolog...

This uniquely comprehensive criminology textbook provides instructors and students the best of both worlds — a text...

Tracker presents former police officer Maurice Godwin’s method of psychological and geographic profiling which is ...

Dunn (sociology, Souther Illinois U.-Carbondale) explores women who are being coerced, intimidated, and stalked by forme...

Agnew (Emory U.) introduced students to one of the leading theories of crime: that people engage in crime because they e...

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some...

Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance fo...

Using violent offenders as their primary focus, Merz-Perez (executive director, Human Society of Shelby County, Alabama)...

Offender Profiling synthesizes and organizes the best thinking on crime assessment and offender profiling, produced by a...

Recipient of Choice Magazine's 1991 Outstanding Academic Book Award Why do some individuals pursue crime as a lifestyle...