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Marshall Barron Clinard (November 12, 1911 – May 30, 2010) was an American sociologist who specialized in criminology. [1] [2] Criminological studies spanned across his entire career, from an examination of the Black Market during World War II to much more general treatments of white collar crime.
[2] According to Gibson, the term criminology was most likely coined in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as Criminologia . [2] In the late 19th century, French anthropologist Paul Topinard used the analogous French term Criminologie . [3] Criminology grew substantially as a discipline in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Crime and Human Nature was called "the most important book on crime to appear in a decade" by the law professor John Monahan in 1986. [8] Also in 1986, Michael Nietzel and Richard Milich wrote of the book that "Seldom does a book written by two academicians generate the interest and spark the debate that this one has," noting that by February 1986, it had been reviewed by at least 20 ...
"A longitudinal test of the revised strain theory." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 5:373-387 (1989) "Foundation for a general strain theory of delinquency." Criminology 30:47-87 (1992) "An empirical test of general strain theory." Criminology 30:475-499 (1992) (with Helene Raskin White) "A general strain theory of community differences in ...
Constitutive criminology is an affirmative, postmodernist-influenced theory of criminology posited by Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic in Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism (1996), which was itself inspired by Anthony Giddens' The Constitution of Society (1984), where Giddens outlined his "theory of structuration".
"Of Crimes and Criminals: The Development of Criminology in Britain", in M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Third Edition (2002) "Criminological Knowledge and its Relation to Power: Foucault's Genealogy and Criminology Today", in the British Journal of Criminology (1992), vol. 32, No. 4; Social theory ...
Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.
This type of theory leads to several different neuroethical issues. If, in the future, we were able to use brain scans , behavioral data, or another type of screening to identify life-course-persistent offenders in childhood, what type of interventions would be implemented, if any?