Criminology: Theories, Patterns and Typologies

Throughout the text, boxed features titled Criminology in Action review critically important research topics in the field.

Profiles in Crime are designed to present to student's actual crimes that help illustrate the position or views discussed in the chapter.

Policy and Practice in Criminology boxes show how criminological ideas and research can be put into action.

Race, Culture, Gender, and Criminology boxes cover issues of racial, sexual, and cultural diversity.

Thinking Like a Criminologist: An Ethical Dilemma boxes present challenging questions or issues that students must answer or analyze by using their criminological knowledge. Practice in applying the information learned in the text will help students begin to "think like criminologists."

Connections are short inserts that help link the material to other areas covered in the book. Most Connections boxes have an Ask Yourself . . . that poses a scholarly question based on the material found at both sources.

Each chapter and each boxed feature within a chapter ends with Critical Thinking Questions that help students develop analytical thinking skills. A list of key terms also appears at the end of each chapter.

This edition focuses on many crime-related topics that have recently captured news headlines across the country. For example, a new section on mass shooters highlights recent research on crime typologies in the area of mass shootings. A new section on the issue of and policy implications surrounding legalizing marijuana reflects the fact that a number of states have legalized marijuana for personal use or for medical purposes. This new edition also includes the most recent crime trends, data, and criminological research in the field.

All crime data has been updated, and includes recent hate crime data and 2015 data showing that the number of murders in the U.S. has risen sharply. The latest data available from the National Center for Educational Statistics on victimization in schools is presented. Other new featured research focuses on how racial stereotypes affect criminal decision-making and shape offenders' decisions.

A new section is devoted to "Broken Windows" and how the concept of community disorder policing programs have been designed to reduce social disorder by concentrating on life style crimes such as panhandling, loitering, and vandalism.

Other new sections discuss victim personality, victim disability, gang membership's impact on victimization risk, criminals who target fellow criminals, lone actor terrorists, the U.S. Freedom Act and how the law changed when the Patriot Act ended in 2015, Internet extortion, overpayment fraud, and recovery/impersonation schemes.

New discussions cover violence and human nature, advocacy for the victims of intimate partner violence, drug market participants' use of firearms to commit crimes, active shooter incidents, and the latest on workplace violence. The section on stalking has been expanded in recognition of all fifty states and the federal government's stalking statutes covering a wide range of behavior.

New coverage offers insights into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as the latest data on terrorism trends and casualties.

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