Criminology

Stephen E. Brown is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Department Head at Western Carolina University. He has served as a Trustee on the board of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and as editor of the American Society of Criminology’s The Criminologist. He is currently working with several colleagues in assessing pedagogical challenges in teaching social science statistics.Finn-Aage Esbensen is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Youth Crime and Violence, and Chairperson of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (2014) and the Western Society of Criminology (2002). He has received the Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Paul Tappan and President’s Awards from the Western Society of Criminology. Gilbert Geis was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Geis had the honor of being a member of Lyndon Johnson’s President’s Commission on Crime, and was a former president of the American Society of Criminology and recipient of its Edwin H. Sutherland Award for outstanding research, among other awards. The National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium named its distinguished scholar award in his honor.

• PART 1 Foundations for Criminology, 1 Crime and Criminology, 2 The Relativity of Law and Crime, 3 Production of Crime Statistics, 4 Distribution of Crime, PART 2 Theories of Crime, 5 Deterrence and Rational Choice Theories of Crime, 6 Individual Theories of Crime: A Biosocial Perspective, 7 Social Structure Theories of Crime, 8 Social Process Theories of Crime, 9 Social Reaction Theories of Crime, 10 New Directions: Integration and a Life-Course Perspective, PART 3 Types of Crime, 11 Violent Crime, 12 Economic Crime, 13 Crimes without Victims and Victims without Crimes, 14 Youth Violence

Now in its ninth edition, Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, continues its exceptional tradition of being one of the top criminological textbooks in the discipline. The authors have created yet another academic masterpiece that continues to stand the test of time by not only bringing together the historical roots of criminology, but also its continued evolution (e.g., biosocial theories). This new edition offers real-world examples that offer practical meaning to each theory or perspective, and as a result, allows the student to gain a deep appreciation for the essential role criminological analysis can provide in policy creation, evaluation, and implementation.- Paul Klenowski, Clarion University, USA