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Canadian Criminology Today offers a clear, contemporary, and comprehensive introduction to criminology that encourages students to think critically about the causes of crime and the outcomes of crime-prevention strategies. Throughout the text, Schmalleger and Volk use plentiful examples and current case studies to present the consequences of criminological theory for social policy and the practical issues associated with crime control.  

 

KEY TOPICS:

What Is Criminology?; Crime Statistics; Patterns of Crime; Victimology: The Study of the Victim; Classical and Neo-Classical Thought; Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour; Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behaviour; The Meaning of Crime: Social Structure Perspective; The Meaning of Crime: Social Process Perspective; The Meaning of Crime: Social Conflict Perspective; Criminology and Social Policy; Future Directions and Emerging Trends

 

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Canadian Criminology Today meets the needs of students preparing for careers in the Canadian criminal justice system. Its applied focus on the explanations of crime and deviance and their application to real-life examples of criminal behaviour reflects the learning outcomes of introductory criminology courses. 

Canadian Criminology Today meets the needs of students preparing for careers in the Canadian criminal justice system. Its applied focus on the explanations of crime and deviance and their application to real-life examples of criminal behaviour reflects the learning outcomes of introductory criminology courses. 

 

Criminologists find themselves wondering what new laws might be enacted to add additional control to the globalization of crime and the misuse of technology as policymakers and criminal justice personnel strive to remain one step ahead of these emerging trends in crime and criminality. For the student of crime and criminal behaviour the crucial question that still remains to be answered is why?-why, despite all the theorizing and studies, can we not "solve" the crime puzzle? Do some people commit acts of mass shootings because they are "born violent"? Or, is it their exposure to violence in childhood that is the cause? Why does the affluent chief executive officer of a corporate conglomerate engage in financial fraud while the young person living in a high-crime neighbourhood remains crime-free? What is it that motivates one person and not another to violate social norms? And does this motivation vary according to the type of law broken?

This sixth edition ofCanadian Criminology Today: Theories and Applications continues to examine these questions and offer students a clear, contemporary, and comprehensive introduction to criminology that encourages critical thinking about the causes of crime and crime-prevention strategies. The thematic approach of Canadian Criminology Today is dualistic: On the one hand, it presents a social problems framework, which holds that crime may be a manifestation of underlying cultural issues such as poverty, discrimination, and the breakdown of traditional social institutions. On the other, it contrasts the social problems approach with a social responsibility perspective, which claims that individuals are fundamentally responsible for their own behaviour and maintains that they choose crime over other, more law-abiding courses of action. 

By (author): Frank Schmalleger By (author): Rebecca Volk

1: What Is Criminology?

2: Crime Statistics

3: Patterns of Crime

4: Victimology: The Study of the Victim

5: Classical and Neo-Classical Thought

6: Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour

7: Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behaviour

8: The Meaning of Crime: Social Structure Perspective

9: The Meaning of Crime: Social Process Perspective

10: The Meaning of Crime: Social Conflict Perspective

11: Criminology and Social Policy

12: Future Directions and Emerging Trends

Frank Schmalleger , Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he also was recognized as Distinguished Professor. Dr. Schmalleger holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University; he earned both a master's (1970) and a doctorate (1974) in sociology, with a special emphasis in criminology, from The Ohio State University. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminology and criminal justice courses at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and for the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university's Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university's graduate program in security administration and loss prevention and taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade. Schmalleger has also taught in the New School for Social Research's online graduate program, helping build the world's first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications.

Rebecca Volk currently oversees the Centre for Organizational Learning at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, after many years as a coordinator and professor in the Police Foundations Program at the college. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and an applied master's degree in criminology from the University of Ottawa. She is also co-author of Police Ethics: A Matter of Character.