This full color, paperback text offers a current, lively and thorough introduction to criminal justice, covering past developments, contemporary issues, and tomorrow's challenges, and drawing students into the intriguing world...
A rethinking of Hirschi's control theory is presented. The volume includes theoretical discussions of spouse abuse, of punishment, and of power-control models.
Employee theft: an examination of Gerald Mars and explaination based on equity theory -- 6. Alcohol and theories of homicide -- 7. The empirical status and Hirschi's Control Theory -- 8. The ocial control of spouse assault -- 9.
Titles: v.3 Facts, frameworks, and forecasts ; v.4 New directions in criminological theory.
Its strengths and weaknesses, excitements and disappointments, are aII captured in the collection of chapters published in this first Handbook of Psychology and Law.