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Crime and the American Dream
by MESSNER/ROSENFELDEdition:
2nd
ISBN13:
9780534517663
ISBN10:
0534517668
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
11/25/1996
Publisher(s):
Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
How has America's over-emphasis on the pursuit of materialistic gain contributed to the it's high rate of violent crime? CRIME AND THE AMERICAN DREAM is an easy-to-understand book that offers clear coveral of criminological theory, using institutional anomie theory as a foundation.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Society Organized for Crime | p. 1 |
| By Any Means Necessary: Serious Crime in America | p. 17 |
| Ships in the Night: Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology | p. 38 |
| Culture, Institutional Structure, and Social Control: A Sociological Explanation of Crime | p. 60 |
| Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream | p. 86 |
| References | p. 109 |
| Index | p. 121 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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