BUNDLE: Walsh, Introduction to Criminology: A Text Reader, 2e + Pratt, Key Ideas in Criminology

Introduction to Criminology, 2eThis new edition of the authors′ popular text/reader provides instructors and students with the best of both worlds―authored text with carefully selected accompanying readings. Thoroughly updated throughout, this Second Edition provides an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality that incorporates the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and the neurosciences.Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal JusticeKey Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an innovative, fascinating treatment of some of the seminal theories in criminology and key policies in criminal justice, offering a detailed and nuanced picture of these core ideas. With a fluid, accessible, and lively writing style, this brief text is organized around major theories, ideas, and movements that mark a turning point in the field, and concludes with a discussion of the future of criminology and criminal justice. Readers will learn about the most salient criminological and criminal justice research and understand its influence on theory and policy. They will also understand the surrounding socio-political conditions from which the ideas sprang and the style and manner in which they were disseminated, both of which helped these scholarly contributions become cornerstones in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.