Overview
Criminological Thought: Pioneers Past and Present explores criminological theory by introducing readers to fifteen leading historical and contemporary crime theorists. Each chapter of the text highlights one thinker, and features a biographical sketch, an overview of his basic assumptions, and an explanation of his key ideas. Critiques of each theory and a bibliography of primary and other sources are also included in each chapter.
Featured criminological pioneers include:
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
David Emile Durkheim
Sigmund Freud
Robert Ezra Park
William Herbert Sheldon
Edwin Hardin Sutherland
Walter Cade Reckless
Robert King Merton
Albert Kircidel Cohen
Lloyd Ohlin
Gresham M'Cready Sykes
Erving Goffman
Howard Becker
Earl Richard Quinney
Synopsis
Offering an extensive look into the lives and times of fifteen notable crime theorists, Criminological Thought: Pioneers Past and Present examines the people who have helped shape the discipline.
Features fifteen criminological pioneers. Includes a systematic approach that focuses on one thinker per chapter. Offers an innovative work that places the theoretical perspective within a historical context.