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Talking about crime and criminals: Problems and issues in theory development in criminology/

Don C. Gibbons

Talking about crime and criminals: Problems and issues in theory development in criminology/ by Don C. Gibbons - Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall, Inc. c1994, - iv,225.: 23.7cm

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Chapter 1. introduction: the criminological enterprise, 1 -- 2. the development of criminology,I, 14 -- 3. the development of criminology,II, 31 -- 4. Defining the dependent variable: Patterns of crime and types of offenders,45 -- 5. Causal explanations and theories in criminology, 69 -- 6. Social-structural theories of crime, 96 -- 7. accounting for criminology and criminal behavior: Sociological and Economic models, 109 -- 8. Accounting for Criminals and criminal Behavior: Do individual differences make a difference?,128 -- 9. the new criminologies,'' 151 -- 10 the prospects for general and integrated theories, 176 -- 11. The future of criminological theory, 199

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