Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than
seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of …

Although growth in the US prison population over the past twenty-five years has been widely
discussed, few studies examine changes in inequality in imprisonment. We study penal …

Chapters in the text are organized according to three parts:(1) concepts of crime, law, and
criminology;(2) theories of crime causation; and (3) crime typologies. The first part presents a …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

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Homicide is a crime that is currently decreasing in Europe (UNODC, 2013). However, it is
serious enough to justify the empirical efforts that have been developed, in order to better …

Previous research has indicated that various deprivation indicators have a positive impact
on crime rates at the community level. In this article, we investigate the impact of deprivation …

This article examines differences in young adults' intimate relationships by social class.
Lower‐class adolescents are more likely to engage in intimate‐relationship practices such …

Crime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-
documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime …

This chapter provides an overview of classic and general strain theory, the leading versions
of strain theory. Both classic and general strain theory argue that poorer individuals are …