Crime Human Nature

The authors have systematically surveyed the research in wide-reanging fields to assemble new scientific evidence on who commits crime and why.

Ultimately, people want to be happy. For most of us, we seek happiness outside of ourselves. We hope that our pursuit of a higher-paying job, a nicer house, a n

Have you ever wondered why some people are so greedy, domineering, manipulative, nasty, cruel, or even criminal while others are so kind, honorable and responsi

This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in dis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

"This textbook is an excellent tool that explores issues impacting juvenile delinquency, theories, system response, community interventions, and effective progr

As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q

Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial an

David Lloyd Dusenbury provides the first monograph in English on the first Christian anthropology--a text which influenced ideas about human nature in the Byzan

Introduces the new field of 'political bioethics,' focusing on the peculiarly political questions posed by human genetic engineering.