Crime Types and Criminals
- Frank E. Hagan - Mercyhurst University, USA
January 2009 | 480 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Crime Types and Criminals is an essential introduction to the study of criminology, focusing on crime types in particular. This book provides broad coverage of all major crime types, as well as coverage of research methods and theory. This book can be used both as a stand-alone and supplementary text in courses such as introduction to criminology, crime and society, deviant behaviour, crime profiling, and many other courses within the criminology and criminal justice discipline. Unlike many of the current criminology books on the market, this is a brief book that really talks about all kinds of crime and criminals in detail in a way to capture and retain student interest.
CHAPTER 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 2. General Characteristics of Crime and Criminals
CHAPTER 3. An Overview of Theory in Criminology
CHAPTER 4. Violent Crime
CHAPTER 5. Property Crime: Occasional, Conventional and Professional
CHAPTER 6. White Collar Crime: Occupational and Corporate
CHAPTER 7. Political Crime and Terrorism
CHAPTER 8. Organized Crime
CHAPTER 9. Public Order Crime
CHAPTER 10. Computer Crime and the Future of Crime
This text will be useful across 2 of the modules on the new course, one looking at volume crime, and another looking at organised crime and terrorism. There are a few pointless photographs.
Social Science , Coventry University
July 15, 2010
I decided to go with Helfgott text and Profiling Violent Crimes..it was a better match
Behavioral Studies Division, Amarillo College
May 13, 2010
The book has potential for use in future classes.
Government Sociology Dept, Georgia College / State University
April 2, 2010