Part I, "Understanding Criminology", presents an overview of criminology - now made more exciting via integrated coverage of terrorism and related crimes - and describes the vast horizon of this science. It explains what crime is and techniques for measuring the amount and characteristics of crime and criminals. It also traces the history of criminological thought through the era that witnessed the formation of the major schools of criminology, classicism and positivism (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries).<br/>Part II, "Explanations of Crime and Criminal Behaviour", includes explanations of crime and criminal behaviour on the basis of the various theories developed in the twentieth... -- Course Website
