Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis - Couverture souple

Pontell, Henry N.; Shichor, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130875856 ISBN 13 : 9780130875853

Editeur : Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in General Criminology, Criminal Justice, White-Collar, Corporate Crime, and Social Problems.

Assembled in honor of the preeminent criminologist and scholar, Gilbert Geis, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, this volume features original, interesting, and relevant essays written by internationally known contributors in such areas as white collar crime, punishment and social control, public policy issues, comparative criminology, law, victimology, and policing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

HENRY N. PONTELL is professor and chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine. He has written extensively on the topics of deviance and social control, white-collar and corporate crime, punishment and deterrence, crime seriousness, jail overcrowding and litigation, criminal justice system capacity, medical fraud, and the role of crime in the savings and loan debacle. He is a past president and fellow of the Western Society of Criminology. His books include: A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment; Social Deviance; Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid; Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America; and Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis. His current work includes research on international financial fraud, and new books on social deviance, and contemporary legal debates in America.

DAVID SHICHOR is professor emeritus of criminal justice, California State University-San Bernardino. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California, and taught at the Tel Aviv University, Israel prior to his arrival at CSUSB. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited several books and published numerous articles and book chapters on various topics, including juvenile delinquency, victimization, white-collar crime, corrections, and privatization in criminal justice. He is currently working on several projects on privatization, restorative justice, fraud victimization, and the mental health of jail inmates.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130875856
• ISBN 13: 9780130875853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 418
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie