Crime : readings /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
Sage Publications,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.