Criminology,
7th Edition

Part I: CONCEPTS OF CRIME, LAW, AND CRIMINOLOGY.
1. Crime and Criminology.
2. The Nature and Extent of Crime.
3. Victims and Victimization.
Part II: THEORIES OF CRIME CAUSATION.
4. Rational Choice Theory.
5. Trait Theory.
6. Social Structure Theory.
7. Social Process Theory.
8. Social Conflict, Critical Criminology, and Restorative Justice.
9. Developmental Theories: Life Course, Propensity, and Trajectory.
Part III: CRIME TYPOLOGIES.
10. Violent Crime.
11. Political Crime and Terrorism.
12. Economic Crimes: White-Collar, Blue-Collar, and Green-Collar.
13. Public Order Crimes.
14. Crimes of the New Millennium: Cyber Crime, Technology, and Transnational Organized Crimes.

• Larry J. Siegel

  Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx, New York. While living on Jerome Avenue and attending City College in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence contemporary culture had on individual behavior: Did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his interest in social forces and human behavior to the study of crime and justice. After graduating from CCNY, he attended the newly opened program in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. After completing his graduate work, Dr. Siegel began his teaching career at Northeastern University, where he was a faculty member for nine years. After leaving Northeastern, he held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he taught for 27 years; he is now a professor emeritus. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, criminal justice, courts, corrections and criminal procedure. He is currently completing a book on policing in America. He is a court-certified expert on police conduct and has testified in numerous legal cases. The father of four and grandfather of three, he and his wife, Terry, now live in Naples, Florida, where he continues to write on various topics and issues in crime and justice.

• Coverage of the latest issues, cases and examples in criminology includes discussion of the causes and effects of the current opioid epidemic, various states' legislation on the use of marijuana, date and acquaintance rape and sexual assault on college campuses and recent controversial confrontations between police officers and citizens. Other topics include revenge porn, hate crimes and hate crime legislation, human trafficking, the political conflict that dominated the 2016 presidential election, voter fraud, importation of wildlife and the activities of the Islamic State.

• New sections cover such topics as stress encountered by abuse victims in childhood that endures into adulthood (Ch. 3); criminal competence, criminal compulsion and escape mechanisms employed during criminal acts (Ch. 4); Situational Action Theory (Ch. 7); justice system inequality (Ch. 8); criminal susceptibility and the link between personality traits and crime (Ch. 9); sex in authority relationships and legislation making it a crime for people in power to have sexual relations with those they supervise (Ch. 10) and internet extortion and ransomware (Ch. 11).

• Insight from recent research includes findings about the higher risk of armed robbery and resulting murders in neighborhoods with medical dispensaries, adolescent boys with antisocial substance disorder (ASD) who repeatedly engage in risky antisocial behavior, the increase in crime rates since cybercrime began to be included in crime statistics, the use of neutralization techniques by white-collar criminals before engaging in business crime, the high correlation between drugs and crime and the record wealth-gap levels between high-income groups and everyone else.

• "Policies and Issues in Criminology" boxes show how criminological ideas and research can be put into action. The features include actual examples of research, discussions of the future policy implications of such research and questions that promote critical thinking. Topics include whether peer deviance affects behavior (Ch. 7); the effectiveness of restorative justice initiatives (Ch. 8); and new to this edition, a discussion of honor killing and honor crime violence against women and girls, which men in some cultures consider to be necessary (Ch. 10).

• "Profiles in Crime" features present actual crimes that help to illustrate the position or views within the chapter. "I Can't Breathe" covers the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police officers because he was believed to be selling single cigarettes from packs without a tax stamp, prohibited by NYC law. New topics include "A Shooting in Ferguson" about Michael Brown, killed in a confrontation with a police officer; "Planning to Steal," about auto thieves and the rise in auto thefts by organized professionals and "Fertility Fraud," about deception at a fertility clinic.

• Chapter learning objectives spell out what students should learn in each chapter, and are reinforced through their linkage to end-of-chapter summaries and to all of the text's ancillary materials.

• Study tools in every chapter maximize student success, helping readers retain what they learn and encouraging them to think critically about what they read. Tools include "Thinking Like a Criminologist" role plays, "Checkpoints", "Connections" boxes to help students link concepts from chapter to chapter, critical thinking questions and more.

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