Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations, and Interventions

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.

• Violence: The Enduring Problem
• Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice
• American Corrections
• Violence: The Enduring Problem
• Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings
• Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach (10th Edition)
• Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Victimology
• Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research (4th Edition)