Criminological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives
Heith Copes,
UNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM Volkan Topalli,
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
ISBN: 0073380016 Copyright year: 2010
Table of Contents
PART I Classical and Neoclassical Theories Rational Choice Theories 1 • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments 2 Cesare Beccaria • Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy 10 Ronald V. Clarke and Derek B. Cornish Contemporary Retrospective on Rational Choice Theories 19 • Classical and Rational Choice Perspectives 19 Andy Hochstetler and Jeffrey A. Bouffard Routine Activity Theory 36 • Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach 36 Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson Contemporary Retrospective on Routine Activity Theory 43 • Routine Activity Theory: An Assessment of a Classical Theory 43 Catherine D. Marcum PART II Biosocial Theories • Criminal Man 58 Gina Lombroso-Ferrero • Crime and Human Nature 71 James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein Contemporary Retrospective on Biosocial Theories 74 • Contemporary Perspectives on Biological and Biosocial Theories of Crime 74 Matt DeLisi, Kevin M. Beaver, Michael G. Vaughn, and John Paul Wright PART III Social Disorganization Theory • Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas 86 Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay • Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy 96 Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls Contemporary Retrospective on Social Disorganization Theory 104 • Social Disorganization Theory 104 Travis Pratt and Jacinta M. Gau PART IV Anomie and Strain Theories Anomie Theories 114 • Social Structure and Anomie 114 Robert K. Merton • Delinquency and Opportunity : A Theory of Delinquent Gangs 120 Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin • The Present and Future of Institutional-Anomie Theory 129 Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld Contemporary Retrospective on Anomie Theories 137 • Anomie in Perspective 137 Sandra Legge and Steven F. Messner General Strain Theory 146 • Foundations for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency 146 Robert Agnew Contemporary Retrospective on General Strain Theory 156 • The Status of General Strain Theory 156 John P. Hoffmann PART V Subcultural Theories • Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang 170 Albert K. Cohen • Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency 179 Walter B. Miller • The Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology 191 Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti • The Code of the Streets 196 Elijah Anderson Contemporary Retrospective on Subcultural Theories 206 • Examining the Logic of Subcultural Models 206 Mark T. Berg and Eric A. Stewart PART VI Differential Association,Social Learning, and Neutralization Theories • Differential Association 224 Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald Cressey • A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior 227 Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers • Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency 239 Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza Contemporary Retrospective on Differential Association and Social Learning Theories 245 • Learning Theory: From Seminal Statements to Hybridization 245 J. Mitchell Miller, J. Eagle Shutt, and J. C. Barnes PART VII Control Theories Social Control Theories 260 • Self Concept as an Insulator against Delinquency 260 Walter C. Reckless, Simon Dinitz, and Ellen Murray • A Control Theory of Delinquency 262 Travis Hirschi • Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life 272 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub Contemporary Retrospective on Social Control Theories 279 • Introduction to Social Control Theories of Crime 279 Christopher J. Schreck Self-Control Theory 289 • A General Theory of Crime 289 Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi Contemporary Retrospective on Self-Control Theory 299 • Overview of Self-Control Theory 299 Nicole Leeper Piquero and Alex R. Piquero Pure Sociology 308 • Crime as Social Control 308 Donald Black Contemporary Retrospective on Pure Sociology 311 • Twenty-Five Years of “Crime as Social Control” 311 Scott Jacques PART VIII Interactionist Theories Labeling Theories 320 • Crime and the Community 320 Frank Tannenbaum • Social Pathology 324 Edwin Lemert • Crime, Shame and Reintegration 335 John Braithwaite Contemporary Retrospective on Labeling Theories 340 • Labeling and Secondary Deviance 340 Jón Gunnar Bernburg Symbolic Interactionist and Phenomenological Theories 351 • Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil 351 Jack Katz • Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited 357 Lonnie Athens Contemporary Retrospective on Symbolic Interactionist and Phenomenological Theories 368 • The Embeddedness of Symbolic Interactionism in Criminology 368 Jeffrey T. Ulmer PART IX Critical Theories Conflict and Radical Theories 382 • Criminality and Economic Conditions 382 William Adrian Bonger • Culture Conflict and Crime 386 Thorsten Sellin • Class, State, and Crime: On the Theory and Practice of Criminal Justice 389 Richard Quinney Contemporary Retrospective on Conflict and Radical Theories 401 • Conflict Criminology: Developments, Directions, and Destinations Past and Present 401 Bruce A. Arrigo and Christopher R. Williams Feminist Theories 413 • Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Offender 413 Freda Adler • Doing Feminist Criminology 420 Meda Chesney-Lind • Gender and Crime: Toward a Gendered Theory of Female Offending 423 Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Allan Contemporary Retrospective on Feminist Theories 431 • Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Assessing Contemporary Feminist Criminology 431 Amanda Burgess-Proctor
References 445
Credits 483
Index
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