In the fourth edition of Essential Criminology, authors Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, and
Desire. M. Anastasia build upon this best-selling critical review of criminology, which has …

* Why should offenders be punished-what should punishments be designed to achieve?*
Why has imprisonment become the normal punishment for crime in modern industrial …

The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of
worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial …

The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should
be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each'mode of …

Places recent trends in policing in the USA into historical context, emphasizing the critical
importance of political, economic, and social forces on the formation and development of …

The use of force by police officers is a regular source of interest among the public, media,
scholars, and criminal justice professionals. Tasers have emerged as an important and …

This article summarizes developments within the SSA perspective since the publication of
Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis in 1994. The …

RECENTLY IN THE UNITED STATES OVERWHELMING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE
dismantling of Great Society programs illustrates that, in the last 30 years, a fundamental …

This study explores the relationship between media portrayal of crime and conditions in the
political economy. Based on a content analysis of articles about crime appearing in Time …

Within Criminal Justice/Criminology,“theory” is generally assumed to be concerned with
crime and crime rates. Studying criminal justice is tacitly, and sometimes explicitly, relegated …