ABSTRACT
First Published in 1997. This is a book about the different ways in which crime and criminal behaviour has been explained in modern times. It will be seen that there are different explanations - or theories - which have been proposed at various times during the past 200 years by among others legal philosophers, biologists, psychologists, sociologists and political scientists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction: crime and modernity
part |32 pages
The rational actor model of crime and criminal behaviour
chapter |7 pages
Classical criminology
chapter |9 pages
Populist conservative criminology
chapter |11 pages
Contemporary rational actor theories
part |85 pages
The predestined actor model of crime and criminal behaviour
chapter |19 pages
Biological positivism
chapter |17 pages
Psychological positivism
chapter |30 pages
Sociological positivism
chapter |15 pages
Women and positivism
part |47 pages
The victimised actor model of crime and criminal behaviour
chapter |11 pages
Labelling theories
chapter |9 pages
Conflict and radical theories
chapter |11 pages
The gendered criminal
chapter |11 pages
Critical criminology
part |66 pages
Integrated explanations of crime and criminal behaviour