Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Publisher's Preface
Part I: Introduction to the Study of Crime
Chapter 1: Criminology: Its Nature and Structure
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
1.1 What Is Crime?
Crime versus
Offence
Deviance
The Crime and Deviance Hierarchy
1.2 What Is Criminology
1.3 The Criminal Justice System in Canada
Functions of the Criminal Justice System
1.4 Historical Overview
The Origins of Criminology
1.5 Sub-Areas of Criminology
Criminal
Statistics
Sociology of Law
Theory Construction: Etiology
Types of Criminal Behaviour
Law Enforcement, Judiciary, and Corrections
Victimology
1.6 Disciplinary Perspectives
Biology
Economics
Geography and the Environment
Political
Science
Psychology
Sociology
1.7 Interdisciplinary Criminology
1.8 Putting Theory into Practice
The Gap between Theory and Practice
Ethical Issues in Criminology
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional
Resources
Chapter 2: Images of Crime and Crime Control
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
2.1 Public Perceptions of Crime
2.2 General Methods of Knowing
2.3 Acquiring Knowledge on Crime
Logical Reasoning
Authority
Consensus
Observation
Past
Experience
2.4 Factors that Shape Public Perceptions of Crime
Personal Knowledge
The Media
Official State Knowledge
Theoretical Knowledge and Crime
2.5 Ethical Dilemmas in Criminological Research
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key
Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 3: Measuring Crime and Criminal Behaviour
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
3.1 Why Criminologists Need Data: Five Key Purposes
3.2 Official Sources of Crime Data
Police Statistics
Judicial Statistics
Correctional
Statistics
What Do Official Data Measure?
Factors Affecting Crime Data
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
3.3 Unofficial Sources of Crime Data
Victimization Data
Self-Report Data
Observational Data
3.4 Validating Findings
3.5 How Data Are
Used
Correlation
The General Aims of Research
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 4: Victims and Victimology
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
4.1 Victimology
The Roots of Victimology
4.2
Victimization Surveys
Advantages and Disadvantages
Canadian Victimization Surveys
The International Crime Victims Survey
4.3 Victim Characteristics
Age
Gender
Household Income
Marital Status and Sexual Orientation
Race and Ethnicity
Repeat
Victimization
Victim Precipitation: Blaming the Victim?
Secondary Victimization
4.4 Theoretical Models and Victim Typologies
Lifestyle Model
Routine Activity Theory
4.5 From Theory to Practice: The Emergence of Victims' Rights
Victim Impact Statements
Victim
Assistance Programs
Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs
4.6 The Future of Victimology
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 5: Major Schools of Modern Criminological Thought
Learning
Outcomes
Introduction
5.1 The Classical School
The Roots of Penal Reform
The Enlightenment
Beccaria's Key Ideas
An Enduring Influence
Evaluation of the Classical School
5.2 The Positivist School
The Roots of Positivism
Lombroso and His
Contemporaries
Evaluation of the Positivist School
5.3 The Rule of Law versus Science
5.4 The Neoclassical School
5.5 Towards an Integrated and Interdisciplinary School of Thought
Prison Reform
Modern Law Enforcement
Legal Reform
Criminalistics
(New) Social
Defence Movement: Humanistic Criminal Policy
5.6 Prevention and Environmental Criminology
Crime Prevention
Key Ideas
5.7 Pioneers of Criminology in Canada
Tadeusz Grygier, Champion of the Social Protection Code
Denis Szabo, Father of Canadian Criminology
Ezzat A. Fattah,
Champion of Victimology and Restorative Justice
Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham, Environmental Criminologists
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 6: Early Positivism and Biosocial Approaches to
Crime
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
6.1 The Foundations of Biological Determinism
Early Theories of Physical Appearance
Anthropological Measurement
Body Types and Criminal Behaviour
6.2 Genetic Research
Twin and Adoption Studies
6.3 The Brain and
Behaviour
Intelligence
Personality
Substance Abuse
Brain Chemistry
EEG Abnormalities
6.4 Nutrition and Environmental Toxins
Diet, Toxins, and Food Additives
Vitamins
Minerals
6.5 Contemporary Biosocial Theories
The Birth of
Sociobiology/Biosociology
Mednick's Biosocial Theory
Eysenck's Biosocial Theory
Moffitt's Biosocial Theory
6.6 The Future of Explanations Rooted in Biology and Genetics
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional
Resources
Chapter 7: Psychological Perspectives
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
7.1 Supernatural Explanations
7.2 Early Psychological and Intrapsychic Approaches to Crime
Introduction to Psychiatric Aspects of Crime
Freud's Intrapsychic Approach:
Psychodynamics
Freudian Explanations
7.3 Learning Theories
Cognitive Explanations
Moral Development Explanations
Behavioural Explanations
7.4 The Place of Psychology in Criminology Today
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key
Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 8: Sociological Perspectives
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
8.1 Sociological Approaches
8.2 Social-Structural Theories
The Human Ecological School
Anomie/Strain Theory
Policy Implications of Social-Structural
Theories
8.3 Social-Process Theories
Sutherland's Differential Association Theory
Labelling Theory
Summary and Evaluation
8.4 Radical and Critical Theories: Conflict, Peacemaking, Feminist, and Left-Realist
Conflict Theory
Peacemaking Theory
Feminist
Perspectives
Left-Realism
Summary and Evaluation
8.5 More Recent (Integrated) Sociological Theories
Rational Choice Theories
Cultural Criminology
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional Resources
Chapter 9: Violent
Crimes
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
9.1 Homicide
Homicide Rates, Trends, and Patterns
Why Do People Kill?
9.2 Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault Rates
Interpreting Trends in Reporting Sexual Assaults
Characteristics of Perpetrators and Victims of Sexual
Assault
9.3 Family Violence
Elder Abuse
9.4 Robbery
Characteristics of Robbery and Robbers
<"Causes>" of Robbery
9.5 <"New>" Forms of Violence
Honour Killings
Hate Crime
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Additional
Resources
Chapter 10: Crimes against Property
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
10.1 Break-and-Enter
Patterns and Characteristics in Break-and-Enters
Clearance Rates and Explanations
10.2 Fraud
Patterns and Characteristics of Fraud
10.3 Theft
Patterns and
Characteristics of Theft
10.4 Motor Vehicle Crime
Patterns and Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Crime
10.5 Arson
Patterns and Characteristics of Arson
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Additional Resources
Chapter 11: Unconventional Crimes:
Organized Crime, Corporate Crime, and Cybercrime
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
11.1 Organized Crime
History of Organized Crime
Defining Organized Crime
Organized Crime Groups in Canada
Comparing Organized Crime Groups to Other Organizations
11.2 Corporate
Crime
What Is Corporate Crime?
Regulating Corporate Crime
11.3 Cybercrime: A New Form of Corporate Crime?
Cryptocurrencies and Cybercrime
Different Forms of Cybercrime
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Names
Additional
Resources
Chapter 12: Public-Order Crimes
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
12.1 Law and Morality
12.2 Gambling
Gambling and the Law
Characteristics and Trends
12.3 Prostitution
The Changing Laws Defining Prostitution
Characteristics and Trends
Male
Sex Work
12.4 Pornography
Pornography and the Law
Does Pornography Cause Violence?
12.5 Substance Abuse
History of Substance Use and Abuse
Drugs and the Law
12.6 Alcohol the Drug
Illicit Drugs
Characteristics and Trends
Summary
Questions for Critical
Thought
Key Concepts
Additional Resources
Chapter 13: The Globalization of Crime: Comparative and International Criminology
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
13.1 The Globalization of Crime
Introduction to Transnational Crime
13.2 International Drug
Trafficking
13.3 Terrorism
Defining Terrorism
Varieties of Terrorist Crime
Prevalence of Terrorism
13.4 Human Trafficking and Smuggling
Human Trafficking
Transnational Smuggling
13.5 Counterfeiting and Intellectual Property of Crime
13.6 International Money
Laundering
13.7 Transnational Cybercrimes
Cyberterrorism and Cyberespionage
13.8 Responding to Transnational Crime
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Additional Resources
Chapter 14: Future Directions in Criminology and Crime
Prevention
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
14.1 Criminology: A Frame of Reference
Four Approaches to Crime Control
Criminology and Social Responsibility
14.2 Future Trends
New Forms of Crime
14.3 Comparative Criminology
14.4 The Knowledge Explosion in
Criminology
14.5 Controlling Crime: Punishment or Prevention
14.6 Politics and Criminal Law
14.7 Global Criminology: A New Terminology
14.8 Restorative Justice: Another Way Ahead?
Summary
Questions for Critical Thought
Key Concepts
Key Name
Additional
Resources
Glossary
References
Index
PowerPoint Slides:
· 30-35 slides per chapter
Test Bank:
· 35 multiple choice questions per chapter, 10 new
· 20 true/false questions per chapter, 5 new
· 10 short answer questions with sample answers per chapter, 3 new
· 5 new short essay questions
Instructor's Manual:
· Chapter Overview
· 5-10 Learning Objectives
· 10-15 Key Concepts and Names
· 10-15 Concepts for Discussion or Debate
· 3-5 Suggested Class Activities
John Winterdyk is a professor in the Department of Justice Studies and the director of the Centre for Criminology and Justice Research at Mount Royal University.
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