Description: Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive and sophisticated social science
Brief description:
William S. Laufer is Julian Aresty Professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School; director at the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research; and professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as co-editor of Transaction's Advances in Criminological Theory series. His writings, which focus extensively on criminal behavior and corporate criminal responsibility, have appeared in many professional journals, including American Criminal Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review.
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-The steadily advancing quality and popularity of the Advances in Criminological Theory series is an excellent indicator of the growing recognition that sober reflection on the internal logic of the dominant theoretical frameworks, as well as on the empirical research offered in support of those theories, is essential to the growth of the discipline.-
--Contemporary Sociology