Criminology : past, present, and future : a critical overview

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Title:

Criminology : past, present, and future : a critical overview

Author:

Fattah, Ezzat A., 1929-

ISBN:

9780333683101

9780333683095

9780312173999

Personal Author:

Fattah, Ezzat A., 1929-

Publication Information:

New York : St. Martin's Press ; Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan, 1997.

Physical Description:

xv, 343 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Crime: Fact and Fiction, Rhetoric and Reality -- 1. The Thorny Issue of Defining Crime -- 2. The Relativity of Crime in Time and Space -- 3. Criminology's Traditional and Persistent Bias -- 4. The Formidable Challenge of Measuring Crime -- 5. The Criminal: Conventional and Unconventional Views -- 6. The Victim: Beyond Popular Stereotypes -- 7. Criminology and Victimology -- 8. Early Speculative Explorations -- 9. Empirical Investigations and Naturalistic Explanations -- 10. Sociological, Sociocultural and Economic Explanations -- 11. Recent Theoretical Developments -- 12. The Future of Criminology and the Criminology of the Future.

Subject Term:

Criminology.

Crime.

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Written by an internationally renowned authority in the field, the founder of the highly regarded School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the book draws heavily on research done on three Continents: North America, Europe and Australia, to trace the discipline's historical evolution, its current problems, disappointing achievements, and promising trends. It concludes with a prospective look at the future of criminology and criminology of the future. Although the perspective is critical, the author's critique is constructive and he expresses a healthy optimism about the discipline's future and offers several guidelines as to how current deficiencies could be remedied and present gaps could be addressed.