Criminology: Past, Present and Future: A Critical Overview
Ezzat A. Fattah, Paul Elliott Rock · 1997
Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Prologue: Crime: Fact and Fiction Rhetoric and Reality - PART 1: UNRESOLVED CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES - The Thorny Issue of Defining Crime - The Relativity of Crime in Time and Space - Criminology's Traditional and Persistent Bias - The Formidable Challenge of Measuring Crime - PART 2: CRIMINALS AND VICTIMS/CRIMINOLOGY AND VICTIMOLOGY - The Criminal: Conventional and Unconventional Views - The Victim: Beyond Popular Stereotypes - Criminology and Victimology - PART 3: CRIMINOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - Early Speculative Explorations - Empirical Investigations and Naturalistic Explanations - Sociological, Sociocultural and Economic Explanations - Criminology: Present Unsuccessful Endeavours, Unfulfilled Potential and Promising Trends - The Future of Criminology and Criminology of the Future - Bibliography - Index