Crime and Behavior Valenzuela Kaplan Henry Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Crime and BehaviorAuthor(s): Sylvia Valenzuela, Paul Kaplan, Stuart Henry\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cognella, Inc, United States\nImprint: Cognella, Inc\nISBN-13: 9781621315391, 978-1621315391\nSynopsis\nCrime and Behavior combines theories of crime causation with their implications for key policy questions relevant to today's world. The anthology integrates theory and contemporary issues, and provides encyclopedic readings by leading theorists of crime.\n\nThe introductory chapter provides an overview of theories that link criminal acts and crime events to individual, social, cultural and structural causes. Each section of Crime and Behavior includes an introduction to the ideas that are presented in the readings that follow. \n\nThe first section of the text examines micro-level theories of crime and behavior, specifically individual and social process theories including classical and rational choice theory, and social learning. In the second part of the text, students conside.