Toward a Unified Criminology : : Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society /

Toward a Unified Criminology : : Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society / / Robert Agnew.

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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 crimin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Agnew, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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