[PDF] Career Criminals In Society eBook

Author : Matt DeLisi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452235953

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More than a century of scientific research has indicated that the majority of crime that occurs in society is committed by a small percentage of the population, meaning that most criminals are repeat offenders, or "career criminals." If societies devoted considerable resources toward preventing and neutralizing career criminals, there would be dramatic reductions in crime, the fear of crime, and the assorted costs and collateral consequences of crime. Career Criminals in Society examines the small but dangerous group of repeat offenders who are most damaging to society. The book encourages readers to think critically about the causes of criminal behavior and the potential of the criminal justice system to reduce crime. Author Matt DeLisi draws upon his own practitioner experience, interviewing criminal defendants to argue that career criminals can be combated only with a combination of prevention efforts and retributive criminal justice system policies. Key Features Uses an engaging writing style to provide a comprehensive overview of career criminals Provides chapter-opening vignettes developed from real criminal cases Examines various crime prevention strategies to neutralize criminal careers Explores the international relevance of career criminals Draws upon research from the fields of criminal justice, criminology, psychology, sociology, and human development With its controversial, thought-provoking style, Career Criminals in Society is sure to advance theory and research on chronic offenders and inspire discussions on how to adequately control crime. It is an excellent supplementary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on criminology, criminal behavior, crime typologies, deviant behavior, and crime control and prevention.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 1986-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309036844

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By focusing attention on individuals rather than on aggregates, this book takes a novel approach to studying criminal behavior. It develops a framework for collecting information about individual criminal careers and their parameters, reviews existing knowledge about criminal career dimensions, presents models of offending patterns, and describes how criminal career information can be used to develop and refine criminal justice policies. In addition, an agenda for future research on criminal careers is presented.

Author : Keith Soothill
Publisher : Willan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134025831

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The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing on fragmented incidents which provide only a partial picture. This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers. It focuses on some major longitudinal studies discussing the onset, persistence, desistance and the duration of a criminal career. The important topics of prediction, risk and specialisation are addressed. The challenging question of 'When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders?' points a way forward. The book concludes by proposing an even more ambitious approach to the topic of criminal careers.

Author : Michael J Coyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136184783

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The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This book highlights how public discourse leaders (from both conservative and liberal sides) guide us toward justice solutions that do not align with our collectively professed value of "equal justice for all" through their language habits. This contextualized study of our justice language demonstrates the concealment of intentions with clever language use which mask justice ideologies that differ greatly from our widely espoused justice values. By the evidence of our own words Talking Criminal Justice shows that we consistently permit and encourage the construction of people in ways which attribute motives that elicit and empower social control and punishment responses, and that make punitive public policy options acceptable.This book will be of interest to academics, students and professionals concerned with social and criminal justice, language, rhetoric and critical criminology.

Author : Panel on Research on Criminal Careers
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Volume II takes an in-depth look at the various aspects of criminal careers, including the relationship of alcohol and drug abuse to criminal careers, co-offending influences on criminal careers, issues in the measurement of criminal careers, accuracy of prediction models, and ethical issues in the use of criminal career information in making decisions about offenders.

Author : Cynthia Baiqing Zhang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1793648891

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Using interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys from formerly and currently incarcerated people, this book examines criminal behavior through identity and community.

Author : Gordon P. Waldo
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 1983-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Career criminals -- pickpockets, Mafioso or corporate executives engaged in illegal dumping -- are rarely caught and therefore rarely studied. This volume aims to add to the literature on career criminals by using innovative methods and approaches to seek out new information. 'The papers are well written and carefully edited with efficient use of charts, maps, and tables in several instances...This bood is recommended for libraries seeking to establish comprehensive holdings in criminology or in criminal justice.' -- Choice, July/August 1984

Author : Alex R. Piquero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521613095

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Author : Deborah Baskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429981449

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This book provides a detailed account of the criminal careers of 170 women who committed violent street crimes in New York City, describing their entry into criminal activities, their development into persistent street criminals, and, for some, their eventual transition out of street crime.