Criminological Theories
Bridging the Past to the Future

Edited by:

Suzette Cote

Other Titles in:
Criminological Theory | Criminology (General)

April 2002 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This book is an anthology of 34 previously published articles and book exerpts that focus on the major theories, past and present, that inform criminology today. While there are a variety of readers available in criminological theory, Cote provides a greater emphasis on some of the novel, newer theories, and some of the often overlooked theoretical perspectives - particularly the newer integrative perspectives. Additionally, an innovative section early in the book contains articles looking at the points where theory and research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice merge and diverge.

Features/Benefits:

· Some new perspectives not often seen in theory readers

· There is a greater emphasis on issues of gender, race, and class within criminological theories and criminality giving the book a more contemporary feel.

· The anthology includes and expands on topics typically neglected in other texts, namely white-collar crime; developmental criminology; new penology; postmodern and constitutive theories; and integrated theories that consider genetics, psychology, and environmental approaches.

· Brief overviews introducing each article discuss the author, the article's important points, and a context for its development and value.

· Discussion questions at the end of each theory section.

PART I: CRIME, CRIMINOLOGY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Thomas J. Bernard

1. Twenty Years of Testing Theories: What Have We Learned and Why?

Ineke Haen Marshall

2. The Criminological Enterprise in Europe and the United States

Thomas J. Bernard & Robin Shepard Engel

3. Conceptualizing Criminal Justice Theory

PART II: BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF CRIME

Diana H. Fishbein

4. Biological Perspectives in Criminology

Augustine Brannigan

5. Criminology and The Holocaust: Xenophobia, Evolution, and Genocide

PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF CRIME

Clifford R. Shaw & Henry D. McKay

6. Delinquency Rates and Community Characteristics

Dina R. Rose & Todd R. Clear

7. Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime: Implications for Social Disorganization Theory

Marvin E. Wolfgang & Franco Ferracuti

8. The Subculture of Violence

Robert K. Merton

9. Social Structure and Anomie

Steven F. Messner & Richard Rosenfeld

10. Crime and the American Dream

Robert Agnew

11. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency

PART IV: SOCIAL PROCESS THEORIES OF CRIME

Edwin H. Sutherland

12. A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior

Ronald L. Akers

13. A Social Learning Theory of Crime

Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza

14. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

John Hagan, John Simpson, & A. R. Gillis

15. Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency

John Braithwaite

16. Charles Tittle's Control Balance and Criminological Theory

Charles R. Tittle

17.Thoughts Stimulated by Braithwaite's Analysis of Control Balance Theory

John Curra

18. The Dynamic Nature of Deviance

Leslie Margolin

19. Deviance on the Record: Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents

Carter Hay

20. Parental Sanctions and Delinquent Behavior: Toward Clarification of Braithwaite's Theory of Reintegration

Edwin H. Sutherland

21. Is "White Collar Crime" Crime?

Michael R. Gottfredson & Travis Hirschi

22. The Nature of Criminality: Low-Self Control

Gary E. Reed & Peter Cleary Yeager

23. Organizational Offending and Neoclassical Criminology: Challenging the Reach of a General Theory of Crime

PART V. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY

Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, & Jock Young

24. Marx, Engels, and Bonger on Crime and Social Control

Stuart Henry & Dragan Milovanovic

25. Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory

Bruce A. Arrigo and Thomas J. Bernard

26. Postmodern Criminology in Relation to Radical and Conflict Criminology

David Shichor

27. "Three Strikes" as Public Policy: The Convergence of the New Penology and the McDonaldization of Punishment

Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind

28. Feminism and Criminology

Kathleen Daly

29. Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology

PART VI: INTEGRATED THEORIES AND UNIQUE APPROACHES

Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke

30. Crime as a Rational Choice

Marcus Felson

31. Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis

Terrie E. Moffitt

32. Adolescent-Limited and Life Course Persistent Anti-Social Behavior

Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

33. The Development of Offending

Delbert S. Elliott, Suzanne S. Ageton, & Rachelle J. Canter

34. Integrated Theoretical Perspective on Delinquent Behavior

Terence P. Thornberry

35. Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency

Anthony Walsh

36. Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory

Selected References

Index

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This is a great collection of journals and articles for the criminology student and others alike.

Extremely helpful for our policing degree students at the moment when trying to link criminological theories to CJS practise

Ms Lorna Harris

Hillsborough College, Sheffield College

October 21, 2015

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A valuable collection of articles discussing varying perspectives in criminological theory.

Mrs Sarah Watson

Criminology, Coventry University

November 4, 2013

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Well written, excellent read for my level 4,5 Policing students.

Mr Peter Norton

Uniformed public services, Sheffield College

September 11, 2013

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This book places emphasis on some of the novel, newer theories, and some of the often overlooked theoretical perspectives - particularly the newer integrative perspectives. An innovative section early in the book contains articles looking at the points where theory and research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice merge and diverge.

Miss Frances Jackson

Public Services, Peterborough Regional College

September 14, 2011

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