Criminology - I - Oxford Bibliographies
Identity Theft
Heith Copes, Anastasia Brown
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Identity Theft Introduction No precise definition of identity theft exists, but most agree that it occurs when someone misuses another individ...
Immigration, Crime, and Justice
Ramiro Martínez
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Immigration, Crime, and Justice Introduction The study of immigration, crime, and justice broadly involves research on the effects of immig...
Incarceration, Mass
Christopher Wildeman
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Mass Incarceration Introduction Whether called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment, the prison boom, the carceral state, or hyperincarceratio...
Incarceration, Public Health Effects of
Bryan L. Sykes, Ernest Chavez, Evelyn Patterson
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Public Health Effects of IncarcerationIntroductionThe rise of mass incarceration since the early 1970s has profoundly affected the labor market prospe...
Income Tax Evasion
John Minkes
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Income Tax Evasion Introduction Academic writing on the subject of income tax evasion is a fairly recent phenomenon with few sources dating to...
Institutional Anomie Theory
Jukka Savolainen
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Institutional Anomie Theory Introduction As a distinct explanatory framework, institutional anomie theory emerged in criminology in the mid-199...
Integrated Theory
Delbert Elliott
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Integrated Theory Introduction Integrated theories are theories that combine the concepts and central propositions from two or more prior exis...
Interpersonal Violence, Historical Patterns of
Rosemary Gartner
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Historical Patterns of Interpersonal Violence Introduction A number of definitions of violence have been proposed by scholars, but probably the...
Interrogation
G. Daniel Lassiter, Shannon K. Pinegar
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Interrogation Introduction Since the US Supreme Court ruled in 1936 that physically coerced confessions are inadmissible at trial, police inte...
Intimate Partner Violence, Criminological Perspectives on
Kathryn M. Ryan, Irene Hanson Frieze
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Criminological Perspectives on Intimate Partner ViolenceIntroductionThe study of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) developed in the late 20th century an...
Intimate Partner Violence, Police Responses to
Amanda Robinson
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Police Responses to Intimate Partner ViolenceIntroductionThe main objective of the feminist-led campaigning and activism of the 1970s was to get intim...
Investigation, Criminal
Richard H. Ward
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Criminal Investigation Introduction Criminal investigation as a discipline within the fields of law enforcement (criminal justice) that...
Juvenile Delinquency
Terrance J. Taylor
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Juvenile Delinquency Introduction Juvenile delinquency has received substantial recognition as a pressing social problem. What is encompassed b...
Juvenile Justice System, The
Terrance J. Taylor
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
The Juvenile Justice System Introduction The American juvenile justice system is an often-misunderstood component of our justice system. Develo...
Kidnapping
Rob T. Guerette, Andrea Headley
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
KidnappingIntroductionKidnappings refer to the taking or abduction of an individual against his or her will, usually followed by some duration of capt...
Kornhauser, Ruth Rosner
Brendan D. Dooley, Sean Goodison
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Ruth Rosner KornhauserIntroductionRuth Rosner Kornhauser (b. 1926–d. 1995) trained as a sociologist at the University of Chicago and impacted the fiel...
Labeling Theory
Ray Paternoster, Ronet Bachman
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Labeling Theory Introduction Labeling theory is a vibrant area of research and theoretical development within the field of criminology. Origin...
Labor Markets and Crime
Robert D. Crutchfield
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Labor Markets and Crime Introduction There are few beliefs about the causes of crime more ubiquitous than that unemployment is an important ca...
Land Use and Crime
Thomas D. Stucky
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Land Use and CrimeIntroductionThe study of land use in criminological research dates back to the early 20th century. Yet, for much of that time, it ap...
Lead and Crime
Kimberly L. Barrett
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Lead and Crime Introduction Lead (Pb) has been described as one of the most prominent and widely studied neurotoxins to date. A robust literat...
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