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Title: INTRODUCTORY CRIMINOLOGY
THE STUDY OF RISKY SITUATIONS
By: Marcus Felson, Mary Eckert
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £52.99


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ISBN 10: 1317211839
ISBN 13: 9781317211839
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 20 November, 2017
Pages: 450
Synopsis: Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations makes teaching and learning criminology much more natural. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas commonly found in criminology textbooks, Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert develop a more practical framework that makes the story flow. Their descriptive categories, simultaneously broad and realistic, serve better than the usual philosophical categories, such as "positivism" and "classicalism," to stimulate students' intellect and critical thinking. Short chapters, each broken into 5-7 sections, describe situations in which crime is most likely to happen, and explain why they are risky and what society can and can't do about crime. They create a framework to organize ideas and facts, and then link these categories to the leading theories developed by criminologists over the last 100 years. With this narrative to guide them, students remember the material beyond the final exam.This fresh new text has been created by two professors to address the pain points they encounter in teaching their own Criminology courses. Problems solved include: reluctant readers, aversion to abstract thinking, fear of theory, and boredom with laundry lists of disconnected ideas. Felson, a leader in criminology theory with a global reputation for innovative thinking, and Eckert, an experienced criminal justice researcher, are uniquely qualified to reframe criminology in a unified arc. By design they offer abstractions that are useful and not over-bearing; their sentences and paragraphs are readable, and their concepts are easy to comprehend and remember. This new textbook challenges instructors to re-engage with theory and present the essence of criminological thought for adult learners, coaching students to grasp the concept before any label is attached, and emerge with deeper understanding of what each theory means and offers. Lean, with no filler or fluff like stock photos, Introductory Criminology includes the authors' graphics to crystallize and expand concepts from the text
Illustrations: 68 Line drawings, color; 13 Tables, color; 68 Illustrations, color
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Non-returnable
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