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, Calif : Sage Pub
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)
• Subjects: 364.3; Recidivists; Criminals; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminals; Recidivists; Récidivistes; Criminels; Prédiction du comportement criminel; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminals; Recidivists; Criminaliteit; Voorspellingen; Recidive; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452222325; 1452222320; 9781452204383; 1452204381
• Related ISBNs: 1412905532; 9781412905534; 1412905540; 9781412905541
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• 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.