Toward a unified criminology : integrating assumptions about crime, people, and society / Robert Agnew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agnew, Robert, 1953-

Series:

New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.

New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime.

Criminologists.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including those about the nature of crime, free will, human nature, and society. These assumptions have a fundamental impact on criminology: they largely determine what criminologists study, the causes they examine, the control strategies they recommend, and how they test their theories and evaluate crime-control strategies. In Toward a Unified Criminology, noted criminologist Robert Agnew provides a critical examination of these assumptions, drawing on a range of research and perspectives to argue that these assumptions are too restrictive, unduly limiting the types of "crime" that are explored, the causes that are considered, and the methods of data collection and analysis that are employed. As such, they undermine our ability to explain and control crime. Agnew then proposes an alternative set of assumptions, drawing heavily on both mainstream and critical theories of criminology, with the goal of laying the foundation for a unified criminology that is better able to explain a broader range of crimes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. A Divided Criminology

2. The Scope of the Discipline

3. Determinism versus Agency

4. The Nature of Human Nature

5. The Nature of Society

6. The Nature of Reality

7. A Unified Criminology

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8147-0790-4

OCLC:

756654135