Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and Prevention, 3rd Edition

Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and Prevention, Third Edition, provides a current, comprehensive, and highly accessible overview of major topics, theories, and controversies within the field of criminal violence.Using lively, straightforward language, Marc Riedel and Wayne Welsh consider diverse theoretical perspectives and present stateoftheart prevention and intervention methods. In their discussions of various types of violence, the authors employ a consistent and coherent threepart framework that allows students to see the important relationships between research, theory, and application:* Patterns describe the characteristics of victims, offenders, and offenses; places where violence occurs frequently; and trends over time.* Explanations look at the major theories that are used to understand each type of violence.* Interventions propose solutions for each type of violence, including diverse legal and social strategiesboth proactive (e.g., prevention) and reactive (e.g., punishment).Supplemented by an Instructors Manual with Test Bank and PowerPointbased lecture slides on CD, the thoroughly revised and updated third edition:* Now integrates theory into each chapter, allowing students to better understand how theory relates to various types of violence* Integrates a comparative perspective where appropriate* Adds additional examples, boxes, bullet points, review questions, and case studies throughout