Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Building Modern Criminology : Forays and Skirmishes, Hardback Book

Building Modern Criminology : Forays and Skirmishes Hardback

Part of the Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology series

Hardback

Description

Building Modern Criminology collects four decades of theoretical essays and research papers by David Greenberg, a sociologist pulled away by his political experiences during the Vietnam War from a career in theoretical high energy physics into criminology.

The papers take up critical questions in the study of crime, including the explanation of group differences, the nature of criminal careers, and historical trends in violence.

Other papers address the historical development of criminal prohibitions, modes of punishment, and the effectiveness of sanctions in preventing crime.

These seminal efforts have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. This volume is indispensable for students, teachers and working criminological researchers engaging with cutting-edge issues in contemporary criminology.

Information

Other Formats

Information

Also in the Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology series  |  View all