Career criminals in society. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matt DeLisi.
• Other Names: DeLisi, Matt
• Contents: The life of crime -- Historical background of career criminals -- Biographies and typological studies -- The modern criminal career paradigm -- International contributions -- Career criminal characteristics -- The universality of career criminals -- Overview of developmental theory -- Patterson's coercion theory -- Moffitt's developmental taxonomy -- Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of informal social control and cumulative disadvantage -- Thornberry's interactional theory -- Social development model -- Developmental theory in action : a review of some successful prevention policies -- Strategies that help to forestall career criminality -- Overview of propensity theories as they relate to career criminals -- The implicit and explicit role of psychopathological conditions -- Wilson and Herrnstein's Crime and human nature -- Gottfredson and Hirschi's A general theory of crime -- The Gottfredson and Hirschi critiques -- Theoretical challenges and summary issues -- The ethical quandaries of prediction -- Media portrayals of career criminals -- The criminological significance of career criminals -- The sympathetic life of career criminals -- The mercurial criminal justice system -- Academics and career criminals -- Constructing the career criminal -- The police and career criminals -- The courts and career criminals -- Corrections and career criminals -- Capital punishment and career criminals -- Prevention and the conservative compromise -- Retributive justice and the liberal compromise.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 364.3; Recidivists; Criminals; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Récidivistes; Criminels; Prédiction du comportement criminel; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminals; Recidivists; Criminaliteit; Voorspellingen; Recidive; Reincidente; Delincuentes; Conducta criminal
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452235950; 1452235953
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.