Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations, and Prevention, Fourth Edition, provides a current, comprehensive, and highly accessible overview of major topics, theories, and controversies within the field of criminal violence.Using engaging, straightforward language, Marc Riedel and Wayne Welsh consider diverse theoretical perspectives and present state-of-the-art prevention and intervention methods. In their discussions of various types of violence, the authors employ a consistent and coherent three-part framework that allows students to see the important relationships between research, theory, and application.

About the Author
Marc Riedel is Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University. Wayne Welsh is Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

Reviews
"The ideal book for this course needs to touch on a wide variety of violence, causation, and patterns. This text does a really good job of covering these topics, and the tripartite approach of examining patterns, causes, and prevention flows rather nicely."--Carol Higgins O'Brien, University of Massachusetts Lowell "This text provides a well-researched and comprehensive discussion of the history of criminal violence in the United States, contemporary violent activities, types of violence, and governments' responses to violence."--Abu Mboka, California State University, Stanislaus "Criminal Violence offers a broad survey of violence by both type and context, and its 'tripartite approach' of patterns, explanations, and interventions is logical and intuitive. The book is clearly written and user friendly."-James Densley, Metropolitan State University "This text is a sober and scholarly look at a social problem that many competitor texts tend to treat like a three-ring circus." --Christopher Schreck, Rochester Institute of Technology



Book Information
ISBN 9780199386130
Author Riedel
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 720g