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Conklin, John Evan was born on October 2, 1943 in Oswego, New York, United States. Son of Evan Nelson and Susan Estelle (Brenner) Conklin.
( Criminal Justice Plummeting crime rates were front-page...)
Criminal Justice Plummeting crime rates were front-page headlines throughout the 1990s, but criminologists have yet to provide a satisfactory explanation for this historically unprecedented decline. This new book fills that gap by using published research and available data to assess the various explanations offered by law-enforcement officials, political leaders, and criminologists in the New York Times during the 1990s. Why Crime Rates Fell also assesses the validity of the explanations offered in the newspaper for the decline in crime rates. Hypotheses put forth by political leaders, law-enforcement officials, and criminologists are assessed using published research and available data. The author's goal is to provide understanding of why crime rates fell in order to point the way to measures that can save more lives and property. This new book will teach the reader what criminologists have discovered about the causes of crime and show them how research can be used to understand a social phenomenon that has received extensive media coverage in recent years. Criminologists, sociologists and anyone interested in criminal justice.
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( This reader includes the most up-to-date and engaging s...)
This reader includes the most up-to-date and engaging selections for a criminology course to be found under one cover, meeting an unfulfilled demand in the marketplace. All publication dates are between 1990 and 1996.
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( The eleventh edition of Criminology is a lively introdu...)
The eleventh edition of Criminology is a lively introduction to the study of crime. As opposed to the “crime-of-the-week” approach common to many other texts, Conklin introduces students to critical issues in the field, such as the way people learn to commit crime, the development of criminal careers, and the organization of criminal behavior. The text is illustrated with copious boxed selections, easy-to-interpret tables and graphs, and dozens of compelling boxed features. While thoroughly researched and authoritative, the text is accessible to students and well-suited for one-semester courses.
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(Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of ...)
Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. In the process, these cinematic depictions of campus life have even altered the attitudes and behavior of college students themselves, serving as both a mirror of and a model for collegiate attitudes and behavior. One can only imagine how many high school seniors enter college today with the hopes of living the proverbial Animal House or PCU Greek experience, or how many have worried over the SAT and college admissions after watching more recent movies like 2004's The Perfect Score. This book explores themes of college life in 680 live-action, theatrically released, feature-length films set in the United States and released between 1915 and 2006, evaluating how these movies both reflected and distorted the reality of undergraduate life. Topics include college admissions, the freshman experience, academic work, professor-student relations, student romance, fraternity and sorority life, sports, political activism, and other extracurricular activities. The book also includes a complete filmography and 65 illustrations.
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( This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the...)
This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the boom years of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through the 1990s, and assimilating information from a variety of sources: art magazines, newspaper accounts, and the relatively small amount of scholarship on art crime by art historians and criminologists. In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of thefts that are committed, the ways thieves locate art to steal and how they gain access to it, their use of insiders and fronts, and the way they launder stolen art. The relationship between art theft and organized crime, especially drug traffickers, is investigated. After looking at explanations of art vandalism and the way vandals explain their behavior, the book concludes with a consideration of policies to curb art crime. The entire book is written in a highly entertaining way, packed with case studies of numerous crimes and stories of smuggling, grave-robbing, and skullduggery, that will appeal to a general audience as well as professionals and academics in criminology, sociology, and art history.
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Conklin, John Evan was born on October 2, 1943 in Oswego, New York, United States. Son of Evan Nelson and Susan Estelle (Brenner) Conklin.
AB, Cornell Univercity, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1969.
Research associate, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1970; assistant professor sociology, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1970-1976; associate professor sociology, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1976-1981; professor sociology, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, since 1981; department chairman sociology, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1981-1986, 90-91.
( Criminal Justice Plummeting crime rates were front-page...)
(Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of ...)
( This reader includes the most up-to-date and engaging s...)
( This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the...)
( The eleventh edition of Criminology is a lively introdu...)
(Organized crime in the US in the 1970's.)
Member American Sociological Association, American Society Criminology.
Married Ruth Tiffany Edmonds, July 10, 1965 (divorced October 1974). Children: Christopher Perry, Anne Tiffany. Married Sarah Hubbard Belcher, Jan.2, 1982.
Children: Lydia Catherine, Gillian Jane.