Criminology A Workbook Using MicroCase ExplorIt
ISBN: 9780534601201 | 0534601200
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/1/2003
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Criminology is an empirical science that involves the testing of claims about crime with data from the real world. Criminology: Using MicroCaseŽ Explorit introduces you to this real world of criminological research and data?giving you the opportunity to participate in the criminological enterprise. In each chapter, the author introduces a particular topic of criminology and demonstrates how data are used to support, augment, and test the ideas proposed. He also provides worksheets that include review questions on the material covered, as well a... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| Getting Started | |
| Part I: UNDERSTANDING CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION | |
| 1. The Geography of Official Crime Rates | |
| 2. Victimization Surveys | |
| 3. Self-report Surveys | |
| 4. Crime and Public Opinion | |
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| 6. Motor Vehicle Theft | |
| Part II: APPLYING CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES | |
| 7. Social Psychological Processes: Bonds, Self-control and Deviant Associations | |
| 8. Social Disorganization and Property Crime | |
| 9. Anomie, Routine Activities, and Robbery Rates | |
| Part III: MULTIPLE CAUSES OF CRIME AND DETECTING SPURIOUSNESS | |
| 10. Substance Abuse and Crime | |
| 11. Violence and the Old West: An Introduction to Regression | |
| 12. "Mass Media" Criminology: Detecting Spuriousness Using Regression | |
| Appendix A: Independent Projects | |
| Appendix B: Variable Names and Sources |
