Handbook on Crime and Deviance

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the field of criminology at the turn of the 21st century.It is designed to review the important recent developments in the sociology of crime and deviance, including:

• History of the Discipline: with an emphasis on the 17th, 18th, and 19th century, this section illustrates how historical theories in the discipline affect modern-day research and practice.
• Methodological Issues in Crime Research: including cutting-edge techniques, written by those who currently use them. This section covers qualitative and quantitative, longitudinal and cross-sectional methods. It also features mapping, trajectories, HLM, latent growth models, NIBRS.
• Explanations of Crime: including biological/genetic, psychological, social structure, and social processexplanations.
• Theory-Based Practice: with a focus on prevention and cessation of crime, particularly early-childhood development, situational prevention, and disistence techniques.
• Special Topics: this section includes chapters oncrime-related issues such as gangs, guns, peer pressure, drug use, child abuse/domestic violence, school crime, and hate crime, and criminal-justice related issues including capital punishment, restorative justice, community policing, and race and gender in criminal processing.

With its interdisciplinary coverage ofboth historical research and cutting-edge method and theory, this volume will be essential for anyonedoing research inCriminology, Criminal Justice, or Sociology.