Product Description: In the current economic climate, this book could not be more timely. One of the world′s leading experts explores the connections between crime and economic conditions, linking the formal economy to the operation of illegal markets and both, in turn, to changes in the forms and levels of crime over time...read more

Using the basic ideas, insights, and conceptual tools of sociology, Messner and Rosenfeld present a provocative introduction to alternative ways of thinking about crime. They provide both an insightful and comprehensive analysis of the Anomie tradition as well as other existing theories while offering a distinctive theoretical perspective to explain the exceptionally high levels of serious crime in the United States. They integrate empirical and quantitative data with ethnographic and qualitative data to provide a clear, succinct and unique discussion of crime and the American dream which is both accessible and interesting to students.

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Product Description: This best-selling workbook will have introductory students doing real criminological research within minutes. The software and data sets for CRIMINOLOGY, 4th are fully updated, and the new co-author, Steven Messner, has rewritten all the student exercises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This fully updated book reflects the most recent changes that have taken place within the study of criminal and deviant behavior. Now with a greater slant on crime, it presents timely discussions on theory, research and policy, and rounds out coverage with illuminating historical and comparative research examples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A text highly thought of book devoted to the study of theoretical integration in criminology and deviance. This text cannot be ignored by those whose focus is on this subject.