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xix, 507 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists / James F. Short, Jr. -- pt. I. What Is Criminology? The History and Definitions of Crime and Criminology -- Defining Crime: An Issue of Morality / John Hagan -- Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics / C. Ronald Huff -- pt. II. How Do We View Crime? Images of Crime, Criminality, and Criminal Justice -- A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality? / Franklin E. Zimring -- Realities and Images of Crack Mothers / Drew Humphries -- Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime / Ronald Weitzer and Charis E. Kubrin -- The Politics of Crime / Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson -- pt. III. Enduring and Changing Patterns of Crime -- Youth Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparison / Finn-Aage Esbensen and Frank M. Weerman -- Specialization and Persistence in the Arrest Histories of Sex Offenders: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Measures and Offense Types / Terance D. Miethe, Jodi Olson and Ojmarrh Mitchell -- The Novelty of "Cybercrime": An Assessment in Light of Routine Activity Theory / Majid Yar -- How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? / Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan -- pt. IV. How Is Crime Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Crime -- Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates Across U.S. Cities / Steven F. Messner, Glenn D. Deane, Luc Anselin and Benjamin Pearson-Nelson -- Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency / Delbert S. Elliott and Suzanne S. Ageton -- Gender and Adolescent Relationship Violence: A Contextual Examination / Jody Miller and Norman A. White -- The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond and Patricia Parker -- pt. V. Who Are the Criminals? The Distribution and Correlates of Crime -- Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence / Eric Baumer, Julie Horney, Richard Felson and Janet L. Lauritsen -- Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Violence: Structural Disadvantage, Family Well-Being, and Social Capital / Thomas L. McNulty and Paul E. Bellair -- Age and the Explanation of Crime / Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson -- Juvenile Delinquency and Gender / Josine Junger-Tas, Denis Ribeaud and Maarten J.L.F. Cruyff -- pt. VI. How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology I -- Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry McKay -- Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence / Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush -- A Theory of Crime: Differential Association / Edwin H. Sutherland -- Differential Association in Group and Solo Offending / Andy Hochstetler, Heith Copes and Matt DeLisi -- Social Structure and Anomie / Robert K. Merton -- Poverty, Socioeconomic Change, Institutional Anomie, and Homicide / Sang-Weon Kim and William Alex Pridemore -- pt. VII. How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology II -- The Subculture of Violence / Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti -- Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency / Justin W. Patchin, Beth M. Huebner, John D. McCluskey, Sean P. Varano and Timothy S. Bynum -- Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency / Travis Hirschi -- Exploring the Utility of Social Control Theory for Youth Development: Issues of Attachment, Involvement, and Gender / Angela J. Huebner and Sherry C. Betts -- Labeling Criminals / Edwin M. Schur -- Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory / Jon Gunnar Bernburg, Marvin D. Krohn and Craig J. Rivera -- Crime and Structural Contradictions / William J. Chambliss -- Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences / David Jacobs, Jason T. Carmichael and Stephanie L. Kent -- pt. VIII. How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research I -- The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control / Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi -- The Stability and Resiliency of Self-Control in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders / Ojmarrh Mitchell and Doris Layton MacKenzie -- Toward an Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control / Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub -- Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects / Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub and Christopher Wimer -- Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach / Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson -- Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide / George Tita and Elizabeth Griffiths -- Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency / Robert Agnew -- A Test of General Strain Theory / Lisa M. Broidy -- pt. IX. How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research II -- The Code of the Streets / Elijah Anderson -- Structure and Culture in African American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the "Code of the Street" Thesis / Eric A. Stewart and Ronald L. Simons -- Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender, and Justice in Late Modernity / Barbara Hudson -- An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach / Hillary Potter -- A Bio-Psychological Theory of Choice / James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein -- Human Ecology, Crime, and Crime Control: Linking Individual Behavior and Aggregate Crime / Joanne Savage and Bryan Vila -- Males on the Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Pathways / Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Honalee Harrington and Barry J. Milne -- The Relationships Among Self-Blame, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Victimization / Kimberly Hanson Breitenbecher -- pt. X. How Do We Control Crime? Crime and Social Control -- Strengthening Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream / Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld -- Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling -- The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates / Michael L. Radelet and Marian J. Borg -- Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy / Barry C. Feld -- The Impact of Restorative Interventions on Juvenile Offenders / Mara F. Schiff -- Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality / Bruce Western and Becky Pettit.
editors, Robert D. Crutchfield [and others].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-497) and index.