Description: Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal behavior
Review Quotes: -Edited by the late Joan McCord--former professor of criminal justice at Temple University and coauthor of The Psychopath and Origins of Crime (among other works)--Beyond Empiricism pulls together a collection of individual essays that seek generally to 'expand perspectives on criminal behavior.' In McCord's own words, each chapter 'raises questions about the adequacy of current theoretical claims.- More specifically, she suggests that criminological theorizing has given 'little attention' to 'mechanisms of change or choice.' These mechanisms represent the focus of several of the substansive chapters of the text, while each of the chapters addresses an issue of relevance to contemporary discussions of research, and/or policy in criminology.---Christopher R. Williams, University of West Georgia, Carrollton