Crime and the American Dream

by MESSNER/ROSENFELD

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3rd

ISBN13:

9780534562779

ISBN10:

0534562779

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

12/5/2000

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Wadsworth Publishing

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Summary

PREFACE. 1. A Society Organized for Crime. 2. By Any Means Necessary: Serious Crime in America. 3. Ships in the Night: Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology. 4. Culture, Institutional Structure, and Social Control: A Sociological Explanation of Crime. 5. Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream. REFERENCES. INDEX.

Preface

viii

Acknowledgments

xiii

A Society Organized for Crime

(89)

Crime and Responses to Crime in America

(3)

The Nature and Level of Criminal Violence

(1)

Fear of Crime

(1)

Crime Control

(1)

The Virtues and Vices of the American Dream

(5)

Evolution of the Concept of the American Dream

(1)

The Dark Side of the American Dream

(1)

Monetary Success and Noneconomic Roles

(1)

Universalism and Economic Inequality

(2)

The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Anomie Perspective

(6)

Core Ideas, Assumptions, and Propositions

(1)

The ``Golden Age'' of Anomie Theory

(1)

Decline and Revival

(1)

Unfinished Business

(3)

By Any Means Necessary

Serious Crime in America

(2)

Cross-National Comparisons of Crime

(8)

Robbery and Homicide Rates in International Context

(3)

Gun-Related Crime

(2)

Has It Always Been This Way?

(2)

Race and Criminal Violence

(1)

White-Collar Crimes

(2)

Serious Crime and the Quality of Life

(9)

Taking Precautions by Any Means Necessary

(1)

Life in a War Zone

(1)

The Struggle for Institutional Control

(6)

Ships in the Night

Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology

(1)

The Scope Conditions of Contemporary Criminological Theories

(6)

Levels of Explanation

(4)

Serious Crimes

(2)

The Unfulfilled Promise of the Sociological Paradigm

(16)

Cultural-Social Learning Explanations of Crime

(2)

Disorganization-Control Explanations of Crime

(3)

The Common Origins of Cultural Deviance Theory and Social Disorganization Theory

(1)

Anomie-Strain Explanations of Crime

(2)

Criticisms of Anomie Theory

(6)

Culture, Institutional Structure, and Social Control

A Sociological Explanation of Crime

(1)

The Value Foundations of the American Dream

(3)

Achievement

(1)

Individualism

(1)

Universalism

(1)

The ``Fetishism'' of Money

(1)

The Institutional Structure of American Society

(12)

The Nature and Functioning of Social Institutions

(3)

The American Dream and the Institutional Balance of Power

(2)

Devaluation

(2)

Accommodation

(3)

Penetration

(1)

Social Organization and Crime

(14)

Anomie and the Weakening of Institutional Control

(3)

The Social Distribution of Crime: Gender and Race

(4)

Kids, Drugs, Guns, and Violence

(7)

Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream

(23)

Conventional Strategies for Crime Control

(9)

The Conservative Camp: The War on Crime

(1)

Mandatory-Minimum Sentencing and the Drug War

(1)

The Expansion of Punitive Social Control

(1)

Unintended Consequences of Expanded Punitive Control

(1)

The Liberal Camp: The War on Poverty and on Inequality of Opportunity

(1)

Effects of Liberal Policies on Crime Rates

(1)

Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform

(1)

Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism

(2)

Crime Reduction through Social Reorganization

101

(7)

Institutional Reform

101

(1)

The Family and Schools

101

(3)

The Polity

104

(2)

Social Stratification and the Economy

106

(2)

The Task of Cultural Regeneration

108

(1)

An Intellectual Foundation for Change

109

(1)

Toward a Mature Society

110

(3)

References

113

(13)

Index

126