Future of Criminology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loeber, Rolf.

Contributor:

Welsh, Brandon C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention.

Criminology.

Local Subjects:

Crime prevention.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.

Summary:

The Future of Criminology takes stock of the major advances and developments that have taken place in the past several decades and asks where the field of criminology is headed. In thirty-three brief essays, the field's leading scholars provide their views into the future of what needs to be done in research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword: Looking Back and Forward""; ""A Future of Criminology and a Criminologist for the Ages""; ""PART I: Development and Causation""; ""1. Some Future Trajectories for Life Course Criminology""; ""2. Does the Study of the Age-Crime Curve Have a Future?""; ""3. Developmental Origins of Aggression: From Social Learning to Epigenetics""; ""4. Biology of Crime: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives""; ""5. Self-Control, Then and Now""; ""6. Criminological Theory: Past Achievements and Future Challenges""

""7. Individuals� Situational Criminal Actions: Current Knowledge and Tomorrow�s Prospects""""8. Lack of Empathy and Offending: Implications for Tomorrow�s Research and Practice""; ""9. Person-in-Context: Insights and Issues in Research on Neighborhoods and Crime""; ""10. Risk and Protective Factors in the Assessment of School Bullies and Victims""; ""11. Adult Onset Offending: Perspectives for Future Research""; ""12. The Next Generation of Longitudinal Studies""; ""PART II: Criminal Careers and Justice""

""13. Research on Criminal Careers, Part 1: Contributions, Opportunities, and Needs""""14. Research on Criminal Careers, Part 2: Looking Back to Predict Ahead""; ""15. Harvesting of Administrative Records: New Problems, Great Potential""; ""16. Twenty-five Years of Developmental Criminology: What We Know, What We Need to Know""; ""17. Pushing Back the Frontiers of Knowledge on Desistance from Crime""; ""18. Does Psychopathy Appear Fully Only in Adulthood?""; ""PART III: Prevention""; ""19. Preventing Delinquency by Putting Families First""

""20. The Future of Preventive Public Health: Implications of Brain Violence Research""""21. “Own the Place, Own the Crime� Prevention: How Evidence about Place-Based Crime Shifts the Burden of Prevention""; ""22. Community Approaches to Preventing Crime and Violence: The Challenge of Building Prevention Capacity""; ""23. Taking Effective Crime Prevention to Scale: From School-Based Programs to Community-Wide Prevention Systems""; ""PART IV: Intervention and Treatment""; ""24. The Human Experiment in Treatment: A Means to the End of Offender Recidivism""

""25. Toward a Third Phase of “What Works� in Offender Rehabilitation""""26. Raising the Bar: Transforming Knowledge to Practice for Children in Conflict with the Law""; ""27. Intervening with Violence: Priorities for Reform from a Public Health Perspective""; ""28. How to Reduce the Global Homicide Rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060""; ""PART V: Public Policy Strategies""; ""29. The Problem with Macrocriminology""; ""30. Staking out the Next Generation of Studies of the Criminology of Place: Collecting Prospective Longitudinal Data at Crime Hot Spots""

""31. The Futures of Experimental Criminology""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-84852-X

0-19-991794-9

OCLC:

811557592