Criminology : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Foreword xiv David P. Farrington Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Criminology, Crime, And Criminal Law 1(25) What Is Criminology? 2(1) What Is Crime? 3(1) Crime as a Moving Target 3(2) Crime as a Subcategory of Social Harms 5(1) Beyond Social Construction: The Stationary Core Crimes 6(1) Focus On . . . Mala in Se or Mala Prohibita? The Cannibal and His Willing Victim 7(1) Victimful and Victimless Crimes 7(1) The Felony-Misdemeanor Distinction 8(1) Criminality 9(1) The Legal Making of a Criminal 10(2) Basic Principles of U.S. Criminal Law 10(1) What Constitutes a Crime? 10(2) An Excursion Through the U.S. Criminal Justice System 12(3) The Role of Theory in Criminology 15(5) What Is Theory? 16(1) How to Think About Theories 17(3) Ideology in Criminological Theory 20(1) Summary 21(1) Exercises and Discussion Questions 22(2) Key Words 24(2) Measuring Crime And Criminal Behavior 26(27) Categorizing and Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior 27(13) The Uniform Crime Reports: Counting Crime Officially 27(7) NIBRS: The ``New and Improved'' UCR 34(1) Crime Victimization Survey Data 34(5) Self-Reported Crime Surveys 39(1) The Dark Figure of Crime Revisited 40(3) What Can We Conclude About the Three Main Measures of Crime in the United States? 42(1) Focus On . . . The Crime Problem or the Criminality Problem? 43(1) The Financial Cost of Crime 43(1) Interpreting Crime Trends 44(4) Focus On . . . Is the United States Hard or Soft on Crime? 48(1) Summary 48(2) Exercises and Discussion Questions 50(1) Key Words 50(3) The Early Schools Of Criminology