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Crime and criminal behavior / William Chambliss, general editor.
LIBRA HV6025 .C75 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Key issues in crime and punishment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime.
- Criminal behavior.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 323 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, [2011]
- Summary:
- In this reference for students and general readers, Chambliss (sociology, George Washington U.) compiles 20 essays on a variety of topics in crime and criminal behavior. A group of scholars mostly from the US consider the historical contexts, debates, policy and legal responses, and sociological characteristics related to age of consent, antisocial personality disorders, child abuse, civil disobedience, corporate crime, date rape, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, hate crimes, intellectual property and Internet crimes, prescription drug abuse, prostitution, religious convictions, state and war crimes, terrorism and extremism, undocumented immigrants, and vagrancy and the homeless. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- "Sage reference."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412978552
- 1412978556
- OCLC:
- 739838339
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