PART Ⅰ Introduction to the Study of Crime and Criminology 1
CHAPTER 1 Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminology 2
CHAPTER 2 The Measurement of Crime and Its Impact 26
PART Ⅱ Explanations of Criminal Behavior 55
CHAPTER 3 Early Explanations of Criminal Behavior and Their Modern Counterparts 56
CHAPTER 4 Biological and Psychological Theories of Criminal Behavior 84
CHAPTER 5 Sociological Theories of Criminal Behavior Ⅰ: The Social-Structural Approach 112
CHAPTER 6 Sociological Theories of Criminal Behavior Ⅱ: The Social-Process Approach 150
PART Ⅲ Types of Crime 183
CHAPTER 7 Violent Crimes 184
CHAPTER 8 Property Crimes 218
CHAPTER 9 Business and Government-Related Crimes 246
CHAPTER 10 Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking,and Terrorism 278
PART Ⅳ Criminal Justice Systems 313
CHAPTER 11 U.S. Criminal Justice Systems 314
CHAPTER 12 Police 346
CHAPTER 13 Court Systems 380
PART Ⅴ Social Reactions to Crime: Corrections 407
CHAPTER 14 The Confinement of Offenders 408
CHAPTER 15 Corrections in the Community 440
APPENDIX A:Selected Amendments to the U.S.Constitution 468
APPENDIX B:Guide to Legal Citations of Reported Decisions 470
GLOSSARY 472
CASE INDEX 483
NAME INDEX 484
GENERAL INDEX 487