| Description |
xvi, 567 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Section 1. The classic descriptions of crime -- Section 2. Theories of causation of crime -- Section 3. The social response to crime -- |
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1. What Is a Gang? / Frederick M. Thrasher -- 2. The Professional Thief / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 3. White-Collar Criminality / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 4. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay -- 5. The Criminal and His Victim / Hans von Hentig -- 6. Victim-Precipitated Criminal Homicide / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- 7. Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery / National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence -- 8. Delinquency in a Birth Cohort / Marvin E. Wolfgang, Thorsten Sellin and Robert Figlio -- 9. Social Change and Crime: A Routine Activity Approach / Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson -- 10. Environmental Criminology / Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham -- 11. Characterizing Criminal Careers / Alfred Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen -- 12. Crime and Deviance over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds / Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub -- 13. Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil / Jack Katz -- 14. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- 15. Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy / Ronald V. Clarke and Derek B. Cornish -- 16. The Normal and the Pathological / Emile Durkheim -- 17. Class Conflict and Law / Karl Marx -- 18. Class, State, and Crime / Richard Quinney -- 19. Criminal Man / Gina Lombroso-Ferrero -- 20. The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, and Heredity / Richard Dugdale -- 21. Feeble-mindedness / H. H. Goddard -- 22. The Individual Delinquent / William Healy -- 23. The American Criminal / Ernest A. Hooton -- 24. Criminology as an Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science / C. R. Jeffery -- 25. Crime and Human Nature / James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein -- 26. Suicide / Emile Durkheim -- 27. Social Structure and Anomie / Robert K. Merton -- 28. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency / Robert Agnew -- 29. Culture Conflict and Crime / Thorsten Sellin -- 30. Differential Systems of Values / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay -- 31. The Content of the Delinquent Subculture / Albert K. Cohen -- 32. Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency / Walter B. Miller -- 33. Techniques of Neutralization / Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza -- 34. Differential Association / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 35. A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior / Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers -- 36. Delinquency and Opportunity / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- 37. Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency / Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck -- 38. A Control Theory of Delinquency / Travis Hirschi -- 39. A General Theory of Crime / Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi -- 40. The Dramatization of Evil / Frank Tannenbaum -- 41. Primary and Secondary Deviation / Edwin Lemert -- 42. Outsiders / Howard S. Becker -- 43. The Etiology of Female Crime: A Review of the Literature / Dorie Klein -- 44. Girl's Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency / Meda Chesney-Lind -- 45. Of Crimes and Punishments / Cesare Beccaria -- 46. The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice -- 47. Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments / Andrew von Hirsch -- 48. Punishment and Social Structure / Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer -- 49. The Law of Vagrancy / William J. Chambliss -- 50. Two Models of the Criminal Process / Herbert L. Packer -- 51. Violence and the Police / William A. Westley -- 52. A Sketch of the Policemen's "Working Personality" / Jerome H. Skolnick -- 53. Police Control of Juveniles / Donald J. Black and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- 54. The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment / George L. Kelling, Tony Pate, Duane Dieckman and Charles E. Brown -- 55. Florence Nightingale in Pursuit of Willie Sutton: A Theory of the Police / Egon Bittner -- 56. Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling -- 57. The Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault / Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk -- 58. The American Reformatory Prison System / Zebulon Reed Brockway -- 59. Discipline and Punish / Michel Foucault -- 60. Prisonization / Donald Clemmer -- 61. The Pains of Imprisonment / Gresham M. Sykes -- 62. The Inmate Social System / Gresham M. Sykes and Sheldon L. Messinger -- 63. Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison / Rose Giallombardo -- 64. Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison / Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo -- 65. What Works? - Questions and Answers about Prison Reform / Robert Martinson |
| Summary |
The third edition offers sixty-five selections - seventeen of which are new to this edition. Topics and authors that have been added include: environmental criminology (Brantingham & Brantingham), criminal careers (Blumstein & Cohen), crime over the life course (Sampson & Laub,) rational choice theory (Cornish & Clarke,) bio-social theory (Jeffrey; Wilson & Herrnstein), general strain theory (Agnew), self-control theory (Hirschi & Gottfredson), feminist theory (Klein; Chesney-Lind), the "justice model" of punishment (von Hirsch), functions of the police (Bittner), "broken windows" policing (Wilson & Kelling), women's prison culture (Giallombardo), the Stanford Prison Experiment (Haney, Banks & Zimbardo), and the effectiveness of correctional treatment (Martinson) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Criminology -- United States.
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| Author |
Jacoby, Joseph E.
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| LC no. |
2004555410 |
| ISBN |
1577663098 |
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