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<p><p>The essays in this volume cover a broad range of criminal theory. Articles from sociology and law journals address images of crime and examine the intertwined relationships of gender, power, class and crime. This insightful volume illuminates the tenets of control theory, perhaps the most pressing theoretical discourse in crime theory today. By covering the territory of why people commit crime, in addition to how society and the law treat criminals, this volume is of use to criminologists, criminal law scholars, and psychologists.<p></p> <h3>Booknews</h3> <p>The Schools section of the International Library of Law and Legal Theory represents the main distinctive approaches and topics of special concern to groups of scholars. The present volume contains 17 essays selected either because they are likely to exert an enormous influence on future theoretical and empirical work, because they have been unfortunately neglected by criminologists, or because they illuminate the most salient theme informing contemporary theoretical discourse: the relationship of control to crime. The volume is divided into six sections: images of crime; new directions in control theory; interaction, self

Author

Francis T. Cullen and Velmer S. Burton Jr

Publisher

New York: New York University Press, Reference Collection

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814715017

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences