Criminology: A Global Perspective, 1/e

Robert Winslow
Sheldon Zhang

ISBN: 0-13-183902-0

Copyright: 2008 – Available 01.05.2007!

Format: Cloth, 777pp


For courses in Criminology, Comparative Criminology, Crime and Society and Comparative Criminal Justice.  

Because of the recent internationalization of communication, transportation, and commerce, crime can best be understood by studying it cross-culturally. Criminology: A Global Perspective was developed to address this new reality and broadens the discussion of crime and social control to the global arena. Relying on data drawn from both national and international sources, the text is accompanied by a comparative criminology website that includes information on every country in the world, its history, its criminal justice system, its crime statistics and more!

 

Hallmark Features 

 

True global perspective not found in competing books.

 

·         Goes beyond traditional criminology textbooks to cover more countries and identify criminological theories that are true universally, not just in the United States.

·         Uses both national and international databases throughout, assessing crime and crime trends in countries around the world.

·         Provides country profiles, country comparisons, and cross-national analyses that reflect the international nature of crime. 

 

Comparative Criminology Website offers a virtual tour of crime throughout the world.

 

·         Includes country by country comparisons and a link to over 110 crime-related sources just by visiting www.rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/index.html.

·         Contains qualitative and quantitative information from international and domestic databases from the FBI, the NCVS, INTERPOL, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization.

·         Shows what and where crime is occurring throughout the world, facilitating further research and study.  

 

Manageable approach to theory

 

·         Includes three introductory chapters (Ch. 3-5), followed by chapters in which additional theories are introduced and applied to specific crimes such as murder, forcible rape, robbery, assault, and theft (Ch. 6-15).

·         Offers a fresh, comprehensive, user-friendly approach to theory.

·         Introductory theory chapters (Ch. 3-5) show how and when general theories were developed, focusing upon the major theorists, their lives and times, the social context in which the theories emerged, and the policy outcomes of the theories. 

·         Covers a total of 118 theories in a unique and innovative way. 

 

Emphasis on science and global statistics appears throughout the book.

 

·         Includes an introduction to the use of the scientific method in criminology, including a discussion of the use of surveys to approximate controlled experiments through multivariate analysis.

·         Promotes criminology as a scientific and collaborative enterprise and tests theories through correlation analysis using national and international data. 

·         Provides, through its companion website, a forum for the publication of student and instructor scientific papers.

 

Exotic crime textboxes

 

·         Expand the discussion to strange-but-true examples from countries outside the United States.

·         Show the many faces of crime as it takes place around the world and details unusual crimes in foreign countries.

·         Includes topics that stimulate curiosity, such as dowry murders in India, honor killings in Islamic countries, genocidal rape in the Baltic countries, and ethnic cleansing and death squad murders in Honduras.