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15 produkter
Marked by Time
How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
Inbunden, 2026
262 kr
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A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic rise in crime and incarceration, followed by an …
Challenging Criminological Theory
The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser
Av Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her major contribution to the field.Section I tells …
Great American City
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Häftad, 2013
287 kr
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For over fifty years, numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our …
Great American City
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Häftad, 2024
288 kr
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Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson’s Great American City presents the fruits of over a decade’s research to support an argument that we all feel and experience every …
The Explanation of Crime
Context, Mechanisms and Development
Av Per-Olof H. Wikström, Robert J. Sampson
Häftad, 2009
748 kr
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Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, …
The Explanation of Crime
Context, Mechanisms and Development
Av Per-Olof H. Wikström, Robert J. Sampson
Inbunden, 2006
1628 kr
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Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, …
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
Delinquent Boys to Age 70
Av John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson
Häftad, 2006
349 kr
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This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor …
Crime in the Making
Pathways and Turning Points through Life
Av Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub
Häftad, 1995
355 kr
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This new explanation of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking contemporary theory and criminal justice policy. It is based on the reanalysis of a classic set of data: Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks’ mid-twentieth-century study of …
Developmental Criminology and Its Discontents
Trajectories of Crime from Childhood to Old Age
Av Robert J. Sampson, John Laub m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1115 kr
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Life-course criminology has generated new energy and provoked sharp debate over competing ideas about the fundamental relationship between age and crime. A major catalyst for this debate – a 2003 American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference session entitled "Age, Crime, and Human Development: …
The Moynihan Report Revisited:
Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades
Av Douglas S. Massey, Robert J. Sampson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
1115 kr
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More than four decades after the publication of the controversial Moynihan Report, social scientists and policy analysts re-examine what the editors call "the most famous piece of social scientific analysis never published." As assistant secretary in the United States Department of Labor, Daniel …
The Moynihan Report Revisited:
Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades
Av Douglas S. Massey, Robert J. Sampson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1115 kr
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More than four decades after the publication of the controversial Moynihan Report, social scientists and policy analysts re-examine what the editors call "the most famous piece of social scientific analysis never published." As assistant secretary in the United States Department of Labor, Daniel …
Immigration and the Changing Social Fabric of American Cities
Av John MacDonald, John Macdonald m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
715 kr
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This volume of The ANNALS brings together a leading set of scholars to present new research on trends in the spatial forms of immigration that are transforming the American landscape—the effects of "the world in a city." With a distinct analytic focus, the volume takes a comparative approach, …
Immigration and the Changing Social Fabric of American Cities
Av John MacDonald, Robert J Sampson
Inbunden, 2012
894 kr
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This volume of The ANNALS brings together a leading set of scholars to present new research on trends in the spatial forms of immigration that are transforming the American landscape—the effects of "the world in a city." With a distinct analytic focus, the volume takes a comparative approach, …
