The Future of Criminology

ISBN-13: 9780199917938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str.

Rolf Loeber; Brandon C. Welsh

Opis

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study. In the recent decades, the study of the causes, development, prevention, and treatment of juvenile delinquency and adult crime has produced many important discoveries. This volume address two questions about crucial topics facing criminology - from causation to prevention to public policy: Where are we now? What does the future hold? Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh lead a team of more than forty top scholars from across the world to present the future of research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

O autorze

Rolf Loeber is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is Co-director of the Life History Program. Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. He has written nine books, including The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention (Oxford University Press, in press).