Aida Y. Hass-Wisecup - Böcker

Profiles in Crime: Typologies of Criminal Behavior provides students with a comprehensive understanding of behavior patterns within the context of justice, law, and society. The text teaches students how to identify the perpetrator of a crime, the nature of the offense, the manner in which the crime was committed, and the motivation and aftermath of the crime. The book places special focus on the social, political, and economic context of criminal acts and how these factors can influence an offender's behavior. The book begins with an overview of criminal offending, criminal typologies, and criminal investigation. In later chapters, students are introduced to various criminal profiles, including those for violent crime, property crime, white collar crime, organized crime, political crime, and more. In the final chapter, students learn the correlates of criminal offending, including psychological, biological, and psychiatric theories of crime, how individuals learn to be delinquent, and psychiatric and psychological explanations for crime. Profiles in Crime is well-suited for undergraduate courses in sociology, criminal justice, and criminology, especially those that address the sociology of deviance, criminal psychology, and criminal typology.

Readings in Victimology: A Closer Look at Crime Victimization features a collection of carefully selected readings that provide a comprehensive overview of the study of crime victimization within the context of justice, law, and society. The anthology employs a critical perspective, emphasizing the social, economic, and political contexts in which crime takes place and how these factors influence the responses to crime victimization and the variety of victims of crime.The anthology begins with an exploration of the historical development of the field of victimology. Additional chapters address emerging trends in criminal justice response to crime victimization, as well as the various issues and dilemmas involved in the study of the relationships among crime, criminal offending, and victimization. Victim rights, restorative justice, and recurrent patterns of behavior are covered. The text features case profiles, as well as examples of principles and theories of crime victimization from multiple perspectives.The second edition features new readings that examine emerging issues in victimization and directions and developments in restorative justice. Chapter 5 includes new material that analyzes the cost of crime to victims.Providing students with a valuable, research-based overview, Readings in Victimology is an ideal supplementary resource for courses in victimology studies.