The future of criminology / edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Loeber, Rolf.; Welsh, Brandon, 1969-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxxvi, 278 p.

Table of Contents

Foreword: looking back and forward / David P. Farrington -- A future of criminology and a criminologist for the ages / Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh -- Some future trajectories for life course criminology / D. Wayne Osgood -- Does the study of the age-crime curve have a future? / Rolf Loeber -- Developmental origins of aggression : from social learning to epigenetics / Richard E. Tremblay -- Biology of crime : past, present, and future perspectives / Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy -- Self-control, then and now / Terrie E. Moffitt -- Criminological theory : past achievements and future challenges / Terence P. Thornberry -- Individuals' situational criminal actions : current knowledge and tomorrow's prospects / Per-Olof H. Wikstrom -- Lack of empathy and offending : implications for tomorrow's research and practice / Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray -- Person-in-context : insights and issues in research on neighborhoods and crime / Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner -- Risk and protective factors in the assessment of school bullies and victims / Maria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith -- Adult onset offending : perspectives for future research / Georgia Zara -- The next generation of longitudinal studies / Magda Stouthamer-Loeber -- Research on criminal careers : Part 1: contributions, opportunities, and needs / Alfred Blumstein -- Research on criminal careers : Part 2: looking back to predict ahead / Alex R. Piquero -- The harvesting of administrative records : new problems, great potential / Howard N. Snyder -- Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know / Marc Le Blanc -- Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime / Lila Kazemian -- Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? / Raymond R. Corrado -- Preventing delinquency by putting families first / Brandon C. Welsh -- The future of preventive public health : implications of brain violence research / Frederick P. Rivara -- "Own the place, own the crime-prevention : how evidence about place-based crime shifts the burden of prevention / John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette -- Community approaches to preventing crime and violence : the challenge of building prevention capacity / Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee -- Taking effective crime prevention to scale : from school-based programs to community-wide prevention systems / J. David Hawkins ... [et al.] -- The human experiment in treatment : a means to the end of offender recidivism / Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong -- Towards a third phase of "what works" in offender rehabilitation / Friedrich Losel -- Raising the bar : transforming knowledge to practice for children in conflict with the law / Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl -- Intervening with violence : priorities for reform from a public health perspective / Jonathan P. Shepherd -- How to reduce the global homicide rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060 / Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette -- The problem with macro-criminology / James Q. Wilson -- Staking out the next generation of studies of the criminology of place : collecting prospective longitudinal data at crime hot spots / David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready -- The futures of experimental criminology / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Stopping crime requires successful implementation of what works / Irvin Waller -- The future of sentencing and its control / Michael Tonry.