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Considering crime from a crime-typology perspective, Dabney (Georgia State U.) collects 25 readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in criminology and sociology on major crime types: homicide and assault, violent sex crimes, robbery, burglary, drugs, prostitution, gambling, and corporate, state, and governmental crime. He reviews the history of this approach and provides a framework that emphasizes the way behavioral, cognitive, and cultural characteristics and societal reactions affect criminal behaviors, followed by data about patterns of offending, victimization, situations, and societal responses, then research articles on the nature and dynamics of criminals and their actions. This edition broadens coverage of fraud and gambling. About half of the articles are new. Aspen Publishers is now Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)