"Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader, provides a unique, comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the study of criminology. The authors' popular text/reader provides instructors and students with the best of both worlds--brief, authored text with carefully selected and edited accompanying readings. Covering both classic and contemporary research in criminology, this text provides an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality that incorporates the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and the neurosciences to help explain criminal behavior"-- Provided by publisher.