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This is an expanded and updated new edition of Roger Hopkins Burke's best-selling criminological theory textbook. It includes four completely new chapters on crime and the postmodern condition, cultural criminology, globalisation and the risk society, and radical communitarian criminology. It is an interdisciplinary text which recognises the value of legal, biological, psychological and sociological explanations of crime and criminal behaviour. This book provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The text is divided into five parts, the first three of which address ideal type models of criminal behaviour - the rational actor, predestined actor, and victimised actor models. Within these the various criminological theories are located chronologically in the context of one of these different traditions, and the strengths and weaknesses of each theory and model are clearly identified. The fourth part of the book looks more closely at more recent attempts to integrate theoretical elements from both within and across models of criminal behaviour, while the fifth part addresses a number of key recent concerns of criminology - postmodernism, cultural criminology, globalisation and communitarianism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61064 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 411 pages