The aim of this book is to provide a text that is both readable and interesting for students. To that end, the authors have incorporated a wide variety of sources: everything from newspapers and popular magazines to official government data to scholarly research and studies. The authors have tried to select panels, as well as statistics, graphs, tables and other visual materials that are informative, insightful, thought provoking, and timely. The book seeks to address not only the basic and traditional topics normally covered in an introductory criminology course, but also the ones that are emerging as especially important in the 1980s. Unlike other criminology texts, entire chapters have been devoted to each of six different kinds of crime - street, white-collar, victimless, organized, corporate and political - expanding the discussion well beyond the limits of the more usual criminological concern with conventional, property and violent crime. Also, since it is the belief of the authors that crime and attempts to control it can never be properly understood when approached separately, the last part of this text for introductory criminology is devoted to the criminal justice system.

Criminology: Crime and Criminal Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Eitzen, Stanley D.

Timmer, Doug A.

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

Paths To Homelessness: Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis

Eitzen, D. Stanley

Talley, Kathryn D

Routledge

This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse citiesChicago, Denver, and Tampashows that there is no culture of poverty” that makes people poor, just as there is no culture of homelessness” that leaves people without shelter. Instead, the authors show that large numbers of people became homeless through the processes of urban and industrial decline.Homelessness is largely an urban phenomenon. It increased dramatically when cities witnessed the simultaneous loss of low-income housing and good-paying industrial jobs. However, the increase in the number of homeless people does not suggest a special social problemarising from the character of individualsbut is the result of social and economic transformations in American cities since the late 1970s.In this book the words of the homeless tell the stories of people who were making it” before but eventually fell into circumstances of extreme poverty. The many paths taken to homelessness, revealed in their stories, speak to the changing conditions of inequality in the United States today and the need for new public policies.

Westview Press

<p>This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse citiesChicago, Denver, and Tampashows that there is no culture of poverty” that makes people poor, just as there is no culture of homelessness” that leaves people without shelter. Instead, the authors show that large numbers of people became homeless through the processes of urban and industrial decline.Homelessness is largely an urban phenomenon. It increased dramatically when cities witnessed the simultaneous loss of low-income housing and good-paying industrial jobs. However, the increase in the number of homeless people does not suggest a special social problemarising from the character of individualsbut is the result of social and economic transformations in American cities since the late 1970s.In this book the words of the homeless tell the stories of people who were making it” before but eventually fell into circumstances of extreme poverty. The many paths taken to homelessness, revealed in their stories, speak to the changing conditions of inequality in the United States today and the need for new public policies.</p>

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