Anthony Walsh

Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice addresses the key issues within criminology and criminal justice that are strongly contested among scholars in the field.

Produktdetails

• Crime Science Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781041119784
• ISBN-10: 104111978X
• Artikelnr.: 74264758

Autorenporträt

Anthony Walsh is an emeritus professor at Boise State University, from which he retired at age 77 after 34 years of service. He has worked as a marine, police officer, and adult probation officer and entered academia at the ripe old age of 43. He has published 57 books and over 150 articles/book chapters/encyclopedia entries. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Biosocial Criminology Association (2014) and the Biopsychosocial Division of the American Society of Criminology (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Philosophical Issues 1. Philosophy in Criminology/Criminal
Justice 2. Ideology and Criminology 3. Human Nature and Criminology 4. The
Issue of Free Will Versus Determinism Section 2: Biopsychosocial Issues 5.
Integrating the Natural Sciences with Criminology 6. Behavioral and
Molecular Genetics 7. The Human Brain 8. Childhood Maltreatment and Brain
Development 9. Rationality or Emotion: Which One Drives the Bus? Section 3:
Issues of Crime Causation 10. Social Learning v. Social and Self-Control
Theories 11. Radical/Critical Idealism Versus Orthodox Realism 12. What is
Intelligence and How is it Related to Crime? 13. Issues Related to
Socioeconomic Status, Poverty, and Crime 14. Religion: Barrier or Bridge to
Antisocial Behavior? Section 4: Issues in Criminal Justice 15. Abolish the
Police: Why or Why Not 16. Issues in Criminal Punishment 17. Issues in
Criminal Sentencing 18. The Death Penalty Issue