Building Modern Criminology: Forays and Skirmishes

ISBN-13: 9781138378544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 524 str.

DAVID F. GREENBERG

Opis

The papers gathered here are selected from four decades of research papers by David Greenberg. 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.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I Causes of Crime: Delinquency and the age structure of society; The gendering of crime in Marxist theory; Time series analysis of crime rates; Long-term trends in crimes of violence; Modeling criminal careers. Part II The Effects of the Criminal Justice System: The effect of arrests on crime: a multivariate panel analysis; The incapacitative effect of imprisonment: some estimates. Part III Understanding the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System: The dialectics of crime control (with Drew Humphries); The dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes; The prison as a lawless agency (with Fay Stender); Punishment, division of labor, and social solidarity; State prison populations and their growth, 1971-1991 (with Valerie West); Siting the death penalty internationally (with Valerie West); List of publications; Name Index.

O autorze

David F. Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University, USA