Criminology

Indeks : p. 513 - 555 ; This book is designed to review these ongoing issues and cover the field of criminology in an organized and comprehensive manner. It is meant as a broad overview of the field, designed to whet the reader's appetite and encourage further and more in-depth exploration. in every chapter an effort is made to introduce students to the diversity of thought that characterizes the discipline. Lively debates swirl over the nature and extent of crime and the causes and prevention of criminality. As noted, some experts view criminal offenders as society victims-unfortunate people who are forced to viollate the law because they lack hope of legitimate opportunity. Others view aggresive, anti social behavior as a product of mental and physical abnormalities, present at birth or soon after, which are stable over the life course. Still another view is that crime is a function of the rational choice of greedy, selfish people who can only be deterred though the threat of harsh punishments.