Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 398
Trim: 7½ x 10½
978-0-7425-4712-4 • Hardback • September 2009 • $165.00 • (£127.00)
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Gregg Barak is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University.
1 Preface and Acknowledgments
2 PART I INTRODUCTION: A UNIFYING ANALYSIS OF CRIME AND CRIME CONTROL
3 Chapter One: Criminology & Criminal Justice: An Integrated Perspective
4 Chapter Two: Official & Unofficial Crimes: A Domestic (USA) Perspective
5 Chapter Three: Official & Unofficial Crimes: A Global Perspective
6 Chapter Four: Crime Control, Risk Management, and Surveillance: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
7 Chapter Five: Crime Control, Dangerousness, and the Penal-Industrial Complex: Punishment and Sentencing
8 PART II STRANDS OF CRIMINOLOGICAL THOUGHT: EXPLAINING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AND CRIME
9 Chapter Six: On the Foundations of Criminological Inquiry: Contributions in Time and Space
10 Chapter Seven: Interest and Rationality: Contributions from Economics and Law
11 Chapter Eight: Nature and Nurture: Contributions from Biology
12 Chapter Nine: Mind and Character: Contributions from Psychology
13 Chapter Ten: Culture and Society: Contributions from Sociology
14 PART III INTEGRATING CRIMINOLOGICAL STRANDS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
15 Chapter Eleven: Integrated Models in an Age of Globalization and Transdisciplinarity: An Eclectic Overview of Emerging Approaches
16 Chapter Twelve: Crime, Globalization, and the Capitalist World Order: Implications for Criminology and Strategies for Social Justice
The book is beautifully organized, well-written, and very interesting. It has a trio of virtues: the author does an excellent job of defining and showing the advantages of integrative approaches. He also refuses to allow readers to separate crime from criminal justice. This strikes me as distinctive and rather original. And I very much like the way he helps us to see how U.S. criminology exists in relation to a global approach.
— Lynn Chancer, Hunter College, CUNY
Barak provides the first integrated analysis of crime, criminal justice, and criminology through a global lens, revealing the importance of a global perspective for the study of crime and justice in the 21st century. While moving seamlessly from micro bio-psychological, interactive-social process to the macro cultural-structural forces that shape crime and our responses to it, the author presents the reader with a feast of the latest criminological ideas in this sumptuous tome.
— Stuart Henry
Barak takes on the study of criminology in a novel way, integrating more mainstream theories with perspectives that have received less attention. I also am very impressed with the way in which he incorporates the new thinking about globalization and crime and adding a critique of the risk perspectives. . . . Overall, this book will be an important text for courses where instructors want to explore different ideas and approaches about crime. It is provocative in a positive way.
— Leslie W. Kennedy, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
In this text, Barak does a phenomenal job bringing attention to areas of study that are often overlooked or are just now beginning to emerge within the field....It greatly enhances ones understanding of globalization as related to criminological study, and integration. Some of the material presented within this text is of a complex nature. For this reason, I feel this text is appropriate for upper level undergraduate courses or even graduate classes. For general reading, I highly recommend this text for those who are interested in integration or globalization as it relates to criminology.
— Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
·Utilizes the new 21st century paradigm of "global criminology" in addition to the 19th and 20th century paradigms of "state criminology" and "disciplinary criminology" to make sense of the historical and contemporary developments in the field.
·Introduces a power typology inclusive of all forms of crime and violence.
·Provides both a domestic and global view of crime and crime control.
·Develops an integrated approach to crime, criminals, criminalization, crime control, criminal justice, and criminology.
·Presents comprehensive policy strategies and recommendations to reduce crime and enhance justice domestically and internationally.
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