Criminal Justice Press Project
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For courses in Criminology, Theories of Crime Causation, and Criminal and Deviant Behavior.
This thorough primer fills the void between voluminous expensive texts and unsuitable paperback readers with a text that covers all significant issues and concepts relevant to students of sociology, criminology and criminal justice. The authors define, examine and explain crime and criminal behavior, and present various new theoretical perspectives on crime causation. The text provides students with an examination of society's response to crime, and presents several different justice perspectives.