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Describes state of the art research and theory of criminology with comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts.   Topics include: the etiology of crime, historical antecedents of contemporary responses to crime, life course criminology, the basis for comparative research in criminal justice, sources and strategies for knowledge acquisition in criminology, specific forms of crime and criminal behavior, including environmental, sex-related, and financial,  responses to crime, including technological, societal, and policy-related crime issues related to social divisions. 5800 INTE

Provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. Rather than present various psychological perspectives as a series of discrete and rival explanations, the aim is to emphasise the connections among approaches, and to show how, taken together, they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality than each provides individually. Theories are arranged in a temporal sequence, from distal to proximal causes of crime. Some theories focus on factors that are present at birth; other theories focus on factors that influence the offender over the lifespan; and other theories focus on factors that are present at the crime scene. The analysis spans 100,000 years, from the evolutionary roots of criminal behaviour in the ancestral environments of early humans on the African savana, to the decision to engage in a specific criminal act. 5800 WORT