In recent years the life-course perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Life Course: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book emphasizes a conceptual understanding of this approach. A special feature is the integration of qualitative and quantitative research on criminal life histories. The book: * Provides an overview of the life course approach and describes the major concepts and issues in life-course theory as it applies to criminology. * Reviews evidence on biological and genetic influences on crime. * Reviews research on the role of the family in crime and juvenile delinquency. * Provides a detailed discussion of the criminological life-course theories of Moffitt, Hagan, Sampson and Laub, and others. * Discusses the connections between youthful crime and adult outcomes in education, occupation, and marriage. * Presents an application of the life-course approach to white-collar crime. * Discusses how macro sociological and historical developments have influenced the shape of the life course in American society as it relates to patterns in crime.

Crime and the Life Course: An Introduction (The ^ARoxbury Series in Crime, Justice, and Law)

Politics & Social Sciences

Benson, Michael L.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

White-Collar Crime (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Business & Money

Simpson, Sally S.

Rorie, Melissa

Kennedy, Jay P.

Business Culture

Routledge

Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case studies, substantive materials, and an annotated appendix of online resources to make this a core book for courses on white-collar crime.

White Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

As an instructor teaching white collar crime, are you frustrated by texts which leave your students feeling outraged but helpless about the subject? Assigning this new text by Mike Benson and Sally Simpson can successfully address that problem, because it explains to students why white-collar crime is so prevalent and so difficult to control. Using this text, instructors can show students how these crimes are carried out in ways that make them difficult to discover. Instructors can also show how opportunities for white-collar crimes could be reduced if we were to approach the problem from the perspective of situational crime prevention. The authors address the difficulty of controlling white-collar crime in detail, and speculate on the future of white-collar crime in the rapidly globalizing world of trans-national corporations.

Crime and the Life Course (Criminology and Justice Studies)

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book emphasizes a conceptual understanding of this approach. A special feature is the integration of qualitative and quantitative research on criminal life histories. This book: <ul>
<li>provides an overview of the life course approach and describes the major concepts and issues in lifecourse theory as it applies to criminology</li> <li>reviews evidence on biological and genetic influences on crime</li> <li>reviews research on the role of the family in crime and juvenile delinquency</li> <li>provides a detailed discussion of the criminological lifecourse theories of Moffitt, Hagan, Sampson and Laub, and others</li> <li>discusses the connections between youthful crime and adult outcomes in education, occupation, and marriage</li> <li>presents an application of the lifecourse approach to white-collar crime</li> <li>discusses how macro sociological and historical developments have influenced the shape of the lifecourse in American society as it relates to patterns in crime.</li>
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In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation. They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prison.

Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence

Cullen, Francis T.

Cavender, Gray

Maakestad, William J.

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem without being reductive in their treatment of the difficulties of control. With this third edition, Benson and Simpson have added substantive online teaching materials and expanded their coverage with up-to-date case studies and discussions of recent investigations into white-collar crime and control. These timely updates reaffirm this accessible and rigorous book as a core resource for courses on white-collar crime.

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

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Crime and the Life Course: An Introduction (The ^ARoxbury Series in Crime, Justice, and Law)

White-Collar Crime (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

White Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Crime and the Life Course (Criminology and Justice Studies)

White-Collar Crime (Criminology and Justice Studies)

Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective (Criminology and Justice Studies)

White-Collar Crime (Criminology and Justice Studies)