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An indispensable international resource, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory provides readers with a clear overview of criminological theory, enabling them to reflect critically upon the traditional, emergent and desirable theoretical positions of the discipline.This handbook is essential for libraries and scholars of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.
Integrative Criminology
Integrative Criminology
Integrative criminology
As a recently established and yet still emerging area of the criminological enterprise ‘integrative criminology’ means different things to different criminologists. In other words, working within, across, and beyond the classical, positivist, and critical traditions are diverse criminologists effectively integrating a myriad of related phenomena and social relations. Narrowly conceived, integrative criminology is commonly and falsely reduced to the praxis of theoretical integration. Broadly conceived, the praxis of integrative criminology includes of course theory integration, but it also represents the efforts of those criminologists who are creating ...
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Explores the key contributions to the fields of criminology and criminal justice from the late 18th century to today— and the conditions that led to their prominence
The development of both criminology and criminal justice has been characterized by different theories and ideas that capture academic (and sometimes political) imaginations and send the discipline veering in entirely new directions. Why did these ideas catch on? What about them attracted and held scholars' attention and on occasion caused them to impact policy considerations? Why do they still have value today? These are the questions addressed in Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an innovative, fascinating treatment of some of the seminal theories in criminology and key policies in criminal justice, offering a detailed and nuanced picture of these core ideas. With a fluid, accessible, and lively writing style, this brief text is organized around major theories, ideas, and movements that mark a turning point in the field, and concludes with a discussion of the future of criminology and criminal justice. Readers will learn about the most salient criminological and criminal justice research and understand its influence on theory and policy. They will also understand the surrounding socio-political conditions from which the ideas sprang and the style and manner in which they were disseminated, both of which helped these scholarly contributions become cornerstones in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.
Key Idea: Crime and the Life Course
Key Idea: Crime and the Life Course
Key idea: Crime and the life course
Key Works
Moffitt, T. E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674–701.
Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
In 1994, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, in which they attributed a host of social problems—from unemployment to out-of-wedlock births to structured inequality—to a single, immutable, individual characteristic that they argued was largely established at conception: intelligence (IQ). In relating their argument to the problem of crime, Herrnstein and Murray held that criminal propensity (caused primarily by a substandard IQ) starts early ...
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