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Author Hagan, John, 1946-

Title Criminological controversies : a methodological primer / John Hagan, A.R. Gillis, David Brownfield
Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Foundations of social inquiry
Foundations of social inquiry.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Prologue; 1 The Class and Crime Controversy; Class and Crime in Time; Declassifying Crime; From Class and Crime to Status and Delinquency; Reclassifying Crime; Community- and National-Level Studies of Crime and Unemployment; The New Ethnography of Class and Crime; Conclusion; 2 Testing Propositions About Gender and Crime; A Beginning; Studying Covariation; Elaborating the Causal Model; The Rudiments of Regression; A Path Analysis of the Elaborated Model; Specifications, Conditions, and Interactions
Specifying a Power-Control Theory of SmokingLiberation, Patriarchy, and Delinquency; Conclusions; 3 Urbanization, Sociohistorical Context, and Crime; Urbanization; Explanations for Contemporary Modern Crime; Urbanization and the Civilization of Wester nEurope; Nineteenth-Century France; Discussion and Conclusions; 4 Initial and Subsequent Effects of Policing on Crime; Good Theory and Bad Timing; Methods and Time; Contents Cultures of Violence; The Growth of States and the Centralizatio no fCoercive Power; Public Order, Punishment, and Policing; Punishment, Compliance, and Defiance
Definitions of Crim eand Patterns of EnforcementContemporaneous and Long-Term Effects an dTypes of Crimes; Nineteenth-Century France; Conclusions; 5 Subcultural Theories of Crim eand Delinquency; Combining Structure and Culture; Subcultures and Social Class; A Regional Subculture of Violence; Adolescent Subcultures; Gender and Subcultural Theory; A nExploratory Empirica lAnalysis; Conclusion; 6 The Drugs and Crime Connection and Offense Specialization: A Latent Variable Approach; The Relationship Between Drug Use an dCrime; The NIDA Report
Narcotics Addiction and Crime: The Anglin and Speckart StudyPatterns of Progression in Dru gUse; Common Correlates of Dru gUse and Crime; Specialization or Diversity in Crimina lBehavior; White Collar Crime as a Distinctive Category; Latent Structure Analysis of Dru gUse an dDelinquency; Conclusion; Epilogue; References; About the Book and Authors; Index
Notes "First published 1996 by Westview Press"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Criminology.
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Criminology
criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime -- Sociological aspects
Criminology
Form Electronic book
Author Gillis, A. R.
Brownfield, David.
ISBN 9780429980855
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