An accessible Criminology book that presents multiple ideological points of view to provide a thorough understanding of criminology. This book emphasizes the sociological ways of assessing and explaining criminal behavior; the text also draws on scientific research and the theoretical perspectives of many other fields, including criminal justice, law, psychology, biology, social work, philosophy, history, and economics.
Student Reviews
Students have enjoyed Glick's Criminology for its FABULOUS PEDAGOGY, HIGH INTEREST BOXED MATERIAL, GREAT WRITING STYLE, and DESIGN. Read below for some of their comments
FABULOUS PEDAGOGY
Everything is all mapped out for you in each chapter which is very nice. It is very useful to have the definitions inside the reading along with them also being along the side of each page. The study guides in the back of each chapter are also very helpful.
Jennifer Leone
Myers University
I really liked the running glossary in the Glick book. It helps me focus my attention on certain key words and makes it easier to go back and look something up. In addition I liked that this book was easy to read, and it flowed nicely. Also I liked the study guide feature.
Tiffanie Burke
University of South Alabama
My current textbook (Siegel's Criminology) does not have a study guide at the end of each chapter and this is something I really like about the Glick book. My current book only lists key terms, but I like the fact that the Glick book not only lists key terms but also has multiple choice, short answer, true/false, matching, and fill in the blank. This feature is really helpful because you can study for a test using different methods, not just one.
Tiffanie Burke
University of South Alabama
However, my current textbook does not have a running glossary down the margins and I really like this feature. It helps students find what key words they need to focus in on.
Tiffanie Burke
University of South Alabama
I found that your chapter outlines are more detailed. The information on the outline I'm sure can be very helpful during test days, mid terms and even finals. This format would help many and like I mentioned before, what makes your book good is that your focusing on one subject not many at a time. This gives the reader more depth in each subject as needed.
Anna Quesada
Allan Hancock College
I particularly enjoyed the Study Guide at the end of the chapters. The true/false, multiple choice, fill-ins and matching questions were a quick way to see if I had absorbed the important information in the chapter.
Lori Wolf
Saddleback College
HIGH INTEREST BOXED MATERIALS
Glick's Criminology also has a lot of profile boxes which really gives the reader a feel for how crime affects people and their everyday life.
Tera Stanford
Hawkeye Community College
My most favorite things were the FYI boxes because they were very informative, the running glossary which helped memorize definitions, the after readings which questioned you on what you read and if you understood it or not, and the study guide which I thought would be very helpful for an upcoming test on that particular chapter.
Tera Stanford
Hawkeye Community College
What I liked most about Glick's Criminology book were the PSST boxes, the
study guide, and the summary of each chapter. These tools gave me good closure and
they also gave me a focus on the main topics to concentrate on.
Maria Rodriguez
California State University, Dominguez Hills
The PSST are very interesting and the facts that it gave about people, places and events where really informative. I found myself surprised at some of the facts.
Anna Quesada
Allan Hancock College
GREAT WRITING STYLE
Glick's Criminology had easier reading and understanding than the book (Schmalleger's Criminology Today) I am reading now. I was able to comprehend what I was reading. It is geared toward students, whereas my other book is geared more towards maybe people with more experience in the criminal justice field other than people still studying it. The book I am reading now seems to go on and on while reading it, while Glick's gets his point across.
Jennifer Leone
Myers University
I liked the easiness of the reading, I could tolerate reading the chapter, and it kept me interested. I also always like when the definitions are along the sides of the page, it makes for better studying and comprehension of the terms.
Jennifer Leone
Myers University
What I happen to like most about your book was that I was simple reading. I found it to be understandable and the facts were great.
Anna Quesada
Allan Hancock College
The book pinpointed some of the most important theories that founded and created what is now known as our criminal justice system. This book has been able to capture both the good and bad, which many other books have failed to remember.
Anna Quesada
Allan Hancock College
I really enjoyed everything this book had to offer. It was easy to read.... I credit that to the way the pages were broken up into different types of sections, such as the FYI boxes, Profiles, and the various graphs and figures that helped re-enforce what I had read.
Lori Wolf
Saddleback College
DESIGN
I am a really big fan of the clean design because the bold faced words are not only in the reading but in the margin so you know exactly what to focus on. This also gives a person the opportunity to read the definition twice which really helped in remembering what was most important to learn.
Tera Stanford
Hawkeye Community College
Glick's Criminology has a better format and keeps straight to the point which my current book (Adler's Criminology) does not.
Tera Stanford
Hawkeye Community College
The chapters are outlined nicely in red and blue and that helps to separate ideas.
Tiffanie Burke
University of South Alabama
Each chapter begins with an introduction and concludes with a summary. Please note that an additional chapter, "Victimology," is available online at www.ablongman.com/glick1e.
1. Crime and Criminology.
1.1. Introduction: What is Criminology
1.2 Criminology and the Criminologist's Roles.
1.3 Criminology and the Scientific Approach.
1.4 Criminological Perspectives.
1.5 The Nature of Deviant and Criminal Behavior.
1.6 Defining Crime
1.7 Durkheim on the Normality of Crime
1.8 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 1.1: Crime as Normal Behavior, Emile Durkheim.
2. The Nature and Extent of Crime: Measuring Behavior.
2.1 Introduction: Researching Crime
2.2 Criminological Research and Data Collection
2.3 The Uniform Crime Reports
2.4 Other Ways to Measure Crime.
2.5 Crime Patterns: Characteristics of Criminals and Crime Victims
2.6 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 2.1: A Professional Thief, Edwin Sutherland.
3. Early Explanations for Criminal Behavior and Neoclassical Theories.
3.1 Introduction: Theories of Crime
3.2 Traditional Explanations for Crime.
3.3 Cesare Beccaria
3.4 Jeremy Bentham
3.5 The Positivist School of Criminology.
3.6 Contemporary Classicism and Positivism.
3.7 Study Guide
Reading 3.1: Contemporary Classicism: Deterrence and Econometrics, and Implications and Conclusions, George B. Vold and Thomas J. Bernard.
4. Biological Explanations for Criminal Behavior.
4.1 Introduction: Biological Perspectives
4.2 Criminality and Genetics.
4.3 Biochemical Influences on Behavior.
4.4 Neurophysiological Factors.
4.5 Summary
Study Guide
5. Psychological Explanations for Criminal Behavior.
5.1 Introduction: Psychological Perspectives
5.2 Psychiatric Explanations for Criminal Behavior
5.3 Behavioral Explanations for Crime
5.4 Cognitive Theories and Crime
5.5 Personality Theories and Crime
5.6 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 5.1: Media Violence and Youth, John P. Murray.
6. Sociological Theories I: Social-Structural Explanations for Criminal Behavior.
6.1 Introduction: Structure-Based Explanations
6.2 Social Disorganization Theory
6.3 Strain Theory.
6.4 Subcultural Delinquency Theories.
6.5 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 6.5: Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures, Richard Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin.
7. Sociological Theories II: Social Control, Conflict, Feminist, and Labeling Theories.
7.1 Introduction: Sociological Theories II
7.2 Differential Association Theory.
7.3 Social Control Theory.
7.4 Conflict Theory.
7.5 Feminist Theory.
7.6 Labeling Theory.
7.7 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 7.1: Feminism for the Mainstream Criminologist: An Invitation, Jeanne Flavin.
8. Crimes of Violence I: Assault and Rape.
8.1 Introduction: Incidence of Assault and Rape.
8.2 Assault.
8.3 Assault and Abuse in the American Family
8.4 Explaining and Responding to Assaultive and Abusive Behavior.
8.5 Rape
8.6 Explaining and Responding to Rape.
8.7 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 8.1. The Criminalization of Domestic Violence, Fran S. Davis.
Reading 8.2 Violence against Women: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Toni Nelson
9. Crimes of Violence: Robbery, Murder, Hate Crime, and Terrorism.
9.1. Introduction: Defining Violent Crimes Against Persons
9.2 Robbery.
9.3 Murder.
9.4 Hate Crime.
9.5 Terrorism.
9.6 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 9.1 : Mass Murder, James A. Fox and Jack Levin.
Reading 9.2: Talking to Children About Terrorism and Armed Conflict, Judith A. Myers-Walls.
10. Property Crimes: Larceny, Fraud, Burglary, Fencing, and Arson.
10.1 Introduction: Defining Property Crimes.
10.2 An Overview of Property Crimes
10.3 Larceny-Theft.
10.4 Fraud.
10.5 Burglary.
10.6 Fencing.
10.7 Arson.
Study Guide
Reading 10.1: Crimes of Fraud, James A. Inciardi.
11. Organizational Criminality: White-Collar Crime and Organized Crime.
11.1 Introduction: White-Collar Crime Defined
11.2 Embezzlement and Consumer Fraud
11.3 Computer Crime
11.4 Environmental Crime
11.5 Explanations for and Responses to White-Collar Crime.
11.6 Organized Crime
Study Guide
12. Public Order Crimes: Drugs, Alcohol, and Sex
12.1 Introduction: Criminalization of Drug Use
12.2 Drugs Defined
12.3 Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Use
12.4 Illegal Drugs
12.5 Explanations for Illicit Drug Use and Addiction
12.6 Responding to the Drug Problem
12.7 Sex-Related Crimes.
12.8 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 12.1 Drugs and Predatory Crime, Jan M. Chaiken and Marcia R. Chaiken.
Reading 12.2 : Sex-Slave Trade in the U.S., Catherine Edwards and James Harder.
13. Responding To Crime: The Police and the Courts
13.1 Introduction: The Criminal Justice System
13.2 The Police
13.3 Police Organization.
13.4 Police Role and the Future of Policing in the United States
13.5 The Courts
13.6 The Death Penalty
13.7 The Juvenile Justice System
13.8 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 13.1: Preventing Crime: The Promising Road Ahead, Gene Stephens.
Reading 13.2: Reasonable Doubts, Stephen Pomper.
14. Responding To Crime: Corrections.
14.1 Introduction: Corrections
14.2 Deterrence and Imprisonment
14.3 Corrections Today: Jails and Prisons.
14.4 Community-based Corrections: Probation
14.5 Other Intermediate Sanctions and Alternatives.
14.6 Parole
14.7 Release and Reentry Programs.
14.8 Summary
Study Guide
Reading 14.1: The Goals of Punishment: The Return of Retributivism and the Utilitarian Model, Clemens Bartollas and John P. Conrad.
Reading 14.2: Restorative Justice For Young Offenders and Their Victims, Annie Seymour and Trudy Gregorie.
15. Victimology (Available online only at www.ablongman.com/glick1e )
Introduction: What is Victimology?
15.2 Estimating Victimization: The National Crime Victimization Survey
15.3 Theoretical Explanations for Victimization
15.4 Consequences of Victimization
15.5 Victim Rights
15.6 Summary
Study Guide