Includes index.

Contents: Introduction to the study of crime and criminology: Crime, criminal law and criminology -- The Measurement of crime and its impact -- Explanations of criminal behaviour: Early explanations of criminal behaviour and their modern couterparts -- Biological and psychological theories -- Sociological theories of criminal behaviour 1: the social-structural approach II: the social-process approach -- Types of crime: Violent crimes -- Property crimes -- Crimes of the business world -- Organized crime and terrorism -- Criminal justice systems: United States systems of criminal justice -- Police -- Court systems -- Social reaction to crime: Corrections: the confinement of offender -- Corrections in the community -- Glossary -- Appendix.