Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
by:
David Downes (author)
This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against...
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This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and new assessments of the contribution made by Gottfredson and Hirschi to control theory.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199278282 (0199278288)
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition language: English
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