Criminology ISE

William Laufer is the Julian Aresty Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology. Dr. Laufer, graduate chair of the Department of Criminology at Penn, received his B.A. in social and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, his J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law, and his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Dr. Laufer's research has appeared in law reviews and a wide range of criminal justice, legal, and psychology journals, including Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, American Journal of Criminal Law, Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly. His most recent book is Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability (University of Chicago Press). Dr. Laufer is coeditor of the Handbook of Psychology and Law; Personality, Moral Development and Criminal Behavior; and Crime, Values and Religion. He is series coeditor with Freda Adler of Advances in Criminological Theory. Dr. Gerhard O. W. Mueller was Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Between 1974 and 1982, he served as Chief of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. As such, he was responsible for all of the United Nations programs dealing with problems of crime and justice worldwide. He was a faculty member of universities and colleges across the country and around the world.

PART 1 UNDERSTANDING CRIMINOLOGY
1 The Changing Boundaries of Criminology
2 Defining Crimes and Measuring Criminal Behavior
3 Schools of Thought throughout History


PART 2 EXPLANATIONS OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
4 Biological and Psychological Perspectives
5 Strain and Cultural Deviance Theories
6 The Formation of Subcultures
7 Social Control Theory
8 Labeling, Conflict, and Radical Theories
9 Theories of Crime, Place, and Victimization


PART 3 Types of Crimes
10 Violent Crimes
11 Crimes against Property
12 White-Collar and Corporate
13 Public Order Crimes
14 International and Comparative Criminology


PART 4 A CRIMINOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM


15 Processes and Decisions
16 Enforcing the Law: Practice and Research
17 The Nature and Functioning of Courts
18 A Research Focus on Corrections


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