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Criminology and the Criminal Justice System, 6/e

Freda Adler, Rutgers University - Newark
Gerhard O. W. Mueller, Rutgers University - Newark
William S. Laufer, University of Pennsylvania

What's New

All charts, tables, figures, and chapter data and statistics have been thoroughly updated.
A new series of boxes called “Debatable Issues” intended to spark class discussion on important issues includes discussions of such items as life sentences for juveniles (Chapter 1), censoring TV violence (Chapter 4), the case of Cohen vs. Miller (Chapter 6), racial profiling (Chapter 8), and corporate power (Chapter 12).
New chapter opening cases include Hurricane Katrina and how natural disasters relate to criminology (Chapter 1) and the BTK Killer (Chapter 4).
Enhanced and new content includes global terrorism (Chapter 1), the impact of rehabilitation on recidivism, the work on family structure of Heather Judy and David Farrington (4), race and criminality, destructive cults (5), Elija Anderson’s work on violence in impoverished communities (6), comprehensive gang model and its evaluation (6), after-school programs, family structure and social control, self-control and Robert Agnew’s general theory of crime (7), workplace homicide, child abuse and neglect, the terrorist attack on the London tube, hate crime violence, violent victimization in school, nonfatal firearm-related crime (10), national household drug use, the President’s National Drug Control Strategy (12), and more.

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