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  • Crime and Nature

    by Marcus Felson ...
    Crime and Nature, written by the always innovative and original Marcus Felson, is the first text to provide students with a unique, new perspective for thinking about crime and how modern society can reduce crime′s ecosystem and limit its diversity.Key FeaturesConnects crime to its larger world: This innovative book shows how crime draws from the larger ecosystem, that is, how offenders hunt for ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Introductory Criminology

    The Study of Risky Situations

    by Marcus Felson, Mary A. Eckert ...
    Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations takes a unique and intuitive approach to teaching and learning criminology. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas commonly found in criminology textbooks, Marcus Felson and Mary A. Eckert develop a more practical, readable structure that engages the reader and enhances their understanding of the material. Their descriptive categories, ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Routine Activity and Rational Choice

    Volume 5

    Edited by Ronald V. Clarke, Marcus Felson ...
    Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
    Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime in Routine Activity and Rational Choice, now available in paperback. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime as purposive behavior designed to meet the offender's commonplace needs, such as money, status, sex ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Rural Settlement and Land Use

    Edited by Marcus Felson ...
    To a remarkable extent, students of location problems have fastened attention upon industrial and urban matters rather than upon agricultural and rural affairs. The preponderance of the former studies undoubtedly reflects the relative importance of the manufacturing and commercial sectors of the technically more advanced countries where most students of location matters have in the past resided. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Crime and Everyday Life

    A Brief Introduction

    by Marcus Felson, Mary A. Eckert ...
    Crime and Everyday Life offers a bold approach to crime theory and crime reduction. Using a clear, engaging, and streamlined writing style, the Sixth Edition illuminates the causes of criminal behavior, showing how crime can affect everyone in both small and large ways. Renowned authors Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert then offer realistic ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior in ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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  • When Brute Force Fails

    How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

    by Mark A. R. Kleiman ...
    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior

    Edited by Clifton D. Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook of Deviant Behavior presents a comprehensive, integrative, and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the twenty-first century.This book addresses the full range of scholarly concerns within this area – including theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues – in over seventy original entries, written by an international mix ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Police-Community Relations: Bridging the Gap

    by Wayne L. Davis PH.D. ...
    This book provides an overview of police-community relations. First, this book examines elderly people and some of their concerns. To best serve the public, the police must understand the concerns of the public. Second, this book discusses various criminal theories and their limitations. Theories are effective for understanding problems and for solving the problems. However, every theory has a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...
    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Criminal Psychology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ray Bull, Claire Cooke, Ruth Hatcher ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From the body language of a liar to profiling serial killers – the ultimate introduction to criminal psychology'Interesting, comprehensive, and informative.' Dan Yarmey, Professor Emeritus of Pyschology, University of GuelphIt is a conundrum that has vexed societies throughout history: how do you deal with those that break the law? If their aim is to evade you, how do you identify them? If their ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Liars and Outliers

    Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

    by Bruce Schneier ...
    Praise for LIARS & OUTLIERS"Without trust, nothing can be achieved. Liars and Outliers is a brilliant analysis of the role of trust in society and business."—Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum"Schneier absolutely understands how profoundly trust oils the wheels of business and of daily life."—Margaret Heffernan, Author of Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future a... ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

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