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Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.This revision offers new chapters on critical theory and on life-course criminology and is updated throughout to reflect current trends in criminological theory and data.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology, criminal justice, and sociology with a thorough exposure to a range of theories about crime, contrasting their logic and assumptions, but also highlighting efforts to integrate and blend these frameworks.

In this new edition, the authors have incorporated new directions that have gained traction in the field, while remaining faithful to their criminological heritage. Among the themes in this work are the relativity of crime (its changing definition) with abundant examples, historical roots of criminology and the lessons they have provided, and the strength and challenges of applying the scientific method. This revision offers new chapters on critical theory and on life-course criminology. It is updated throughout to reflect current trends in criminological theory and data.

With chapters both updated to reflect recent developments in the field and made easier to digest, this text is essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and related fields.

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PART 1: FOUNDATIONS FOR CRIMINOLOGY Chapter 1 Crime and Criminology Chapter 2 The Relativity of Law, Crime, and Deviance Chapter 3 Crime Data and Distribution PART 2: THEORIES OF CRIME Chapter 4 Deterrence and Rational Choice Theories of Crime Chapter 5 Positivism and BioPsychoSocial Criminology Chapter 6 Social Structure Theories of Crime Chapter 7 Social Process Theories of Crime Chapter 8 Social Reaction Theories of Crime: Labeling Chapter 9 Social Reaction Theories of Crime: Conflict and Beyond Chapter 10 Life-Course Criminology PART 3: TYPES OF CRIME Chapter 11 Violent Crime Chapter 12 Economic Crime Chapter 13 Crimes without Victims and Victims without Crimes