Criminology, CDN Edition

About the Author\nGerhard Mueller is the late Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. After earning his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, he went on to receive a master of laws degree from Columbia University. He was awarded the degree of Dr. Jur. h. c. by the University of Uppsala, Sweden. His career in criminal justice began in 1945, when he served as a chief petty officer in the British Military government Water Police, where he commanded a Coast Guard cutter. His teaching in criminal justice, begun in l953, was partially interrupted between 1974 and l982 when, as Chief of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, he was responsible for all of the United Nations’ programs dealing with problems of crime and -justice worldwide. He continued his service to the United Nations as chair ad interim of the Board of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. Professor Mueller was a member of the faculties of law at the University of Washington, West Virginia University, New York University, and the National Judicial College, with visiting appointments and lectureships at universities and institutes in the Americas, western and eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. He was the author of some 50 authored or edited books and 270 scholarly articles.\nWilliam Laufer is the Julian Aresty Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology. Dr. Laufer, graduate chair of the Department of Criminology at Penn, received his B.A. in social and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, his J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law, and his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Dr. Laufer's research has appeared in law reviews and a wide range of criminal justice, legal, and psychology journals, including Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, American Journal of Criminal Law, Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly. His most recent book is Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability (University of Chicago Press). Dr. Laufer is coeditor of the Handbook of Psychology and Law; Personality, Moral Development and Criminal Behavior; and Crime, Values and Religion. He is series coeditor with Freda Adler of Advances in Criminological Theory.\nJana Grekul is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Criminology at the University of Alberta. After completing her BA degree in sociology at the University of Alberta, Dr. Grekul, went on to complete her MA in 1995 and her PhD in 2002. Her master's thesis research was conducted at a maximum-security prison where she investigated the impact of group processes on the misperceptions and misunderstandings that occur between correctional officers and inmates, and how these processes contribute to prison violence. Her doctoral research was a case study of the eugenics movement in Alberta. Dr. Grekul's current research interests include studying street and prison gangs, particularly Aboriginal gangs. She is also involved in research that focuses on impaired driving and programs that address the issue, public perceptions of impaired and distracted driving, and the connection between impaired driving and criminal behaviours. Dr. Grekul teaches a variety of sociology and criminology courses and recently published Sociology.\nThis title is now available in a NEW EDITION - 0071319034.
In some ways, criminals are not all that different from "non criminals," except that environmental, social, and other factors have joined together in a particular configuration to produce criminal behaviours. So criminals are not really so different from the rest of us: like links in a chain, we are al