Criminological Theories

PART I: CRIME, CRIMINOLOGY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1. Twenty Years of Testing Theories: What Have We Learned and Why? - Thomas J. Bernard 2. The Criminological Enterprise in Europe and the United States - Ineke Haen Marshall 3. Conceptualizing Criminal Justice Theory - Thomas J. Bernard & Robin Shepard Engel PART II: BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF CRIME 4. Biological Perspectives in Criminology - Diana H. Fishbein 5. Criminology and The Holocaust: Xenophobia, Evolution, and Genocide - Augustine Brannigan PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF CRIME 6. Delinquency Rates and Community Characteristics - Clifford R. Shaw & Henry D. McKay 7. Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime: Implications for Social Disorganization Theory - Dina R. Rose & Todd R. Clear 8. The Subculture of Violence - Marvin E. Wolfgang & Franco Ferracuti 9. Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton 10. Crime and the American Dream - Steven F. Messner & Richard Rosenfeld 11. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency - Robert Agnew PART IV: SOCIAL PROCESS THEORIES OF CRIME 12. A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior - Edwin H. Sutherland 13. A Social Learning Theory of Crime - Ronald L. Akers 14. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency - Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza 15. Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency - John Hagan, John Simpson, & A. R. Gillis 16. Charles Tittle's Control Balance and Criminological Theory - John Braithwaite 17.Thoughts Stimulated by Braithwaite's Analysis of Control Balance Theory - Charles R. Tittle 18. The Dynamic Nature of Deviance - John Curra 19. Deviance on the Record: Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents - Leslie Margolin 20. Parental Sanctions and Delinquent Behavior: Toward Clarification of Braithwaite's Theory of Reintegration - Carter Hay 21. Is "White Collar Crime" Crime? - Edwin H. Sutherland 22. The Nature of Criminality: Low-Self Control - Michael R. Gottfredson & Travis Hirschi 23. Organizational Offending and Neoclassical Criminology: Challenging the Reach of a General Theory of Crime - Gary E. Reed & Peter Cleary Yeager PART V. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY 24. Marx, Engels, and Bonger on Crime and Social Control - Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, & Jock Young 25. Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory - Stuart Henry & Dragan Milovanovic 26. Postmodern Criminology in Relation to Radical and Conflict Criminology - Bruce A. Arrigo and Thomas J. Bernard 27. "Three Strikes" as Public Policy: The Convergence of the New Penology and the McDonaldization of Punishment - David Shichor 28. Feminism and Criminology - Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind 29. Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology - Kathleen Daly PART VI: INTEGRATED THEORIES AND UNIQUE APPROACHES 30. Crime as a Rational Choice - Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke 31. Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis - Marcus Felson 32. Adolescent-Limited and Life Course Persistent Anti-Social Behavior - Terrie E. Moffitt 33. The Development of Offending - Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber 34. Integrated Theoretical Perspective on Delinquent Behavior - Delbert S. Elliott, Suzanne S. Ageton, & Rachelle J. Canter 35. Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency - Terence P. Thornberry 36. Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory - Anthony Walsh Selected References Index About the Editor