Thinking About Crime

  • Thinking About Crime
    By James Wilson

    7. John A. O'Donnell, “Narcotic Addiction and Crime,” Social Problems 13 (Spring 1966): 374–385. 8. J. C. Ball et al., “The Criminality of Heroin Addicts,” in The DrugsCrime Connection, ed. J. A. Inciardi (Beverly Hills, Calif.

  • Thinking about Crime: Theories of Crime and Justice
    By John Muncie, Stuart Hall, Gregor McLennan

    Thinking about Crime: Theories of Crime and Justice

  • Thinking About Crime
    By James Wilson

    Now with a new foreword by the prominent scholar and best-selling author Charles Murray, this revised edition of Thinking About Crime introduces a new generation of readers to the theories and ideas that have been so influential in shaping ...

  • Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture
    By Michael H. Tonry

    In the June 2002 case of Daryl Atkins, a Virginia man with an IQ of fifty-nine, the Supreme Court decided that a “national consensus” now exists that mentally retarded offenders are categorically less culpable than the average offender ...

  • Thinking About Crime
    By James Q. Wilson, David J. Wilson, D.l. Wilson

    Argues that criminal activity is largely rational, shaped by rewards and penalties it offers versus the outcome of other available activities.

  • Thinking about Crime
    By James Q. Wilson

    Thinking about Crime

  • Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture
    By Michael Tonry

    In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties.

  • Thinking about Crime
    By James Q. Wilson

    Argues that criminal activity is largely rational, shaped by rewards and penalties it offers versus the outcome of other available activities.