An Introduction to Criminological Theory

by McShane,Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780815325093
• ISBN10: 0815325096
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	vii	(4)
Volume Introduction	xi
Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency	1	(20)
Robert Agnew
Inventing Criminology: The "Science of Man" in Cesare Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene (1764)	21	(45)
Piers Beirne
Poverty, Power, White-Collar Crime and the Paradoxes of Criminological Theory	66	(19)
John Braithwaite
Reconsidering Strain Theory: Operationalization, Rival Theories, and Adult Criminality	85	(27)
Velmer S. Burton Jr.
Francis T. Cullen
T. David Evans
R. Gregory Dunaway
The Normalcy of Crime: From Durkheim to Evolutionary Ecology	112	(23)
Lawrence E. Cohen
Richard Machalek
Talking About Crime: Observations on the Prospects for Causal Theory in Criminology	135	(10)
Don C. Gibbons
Social Area Influences on Delinquency: A Multilevel Analysis	145	(30)
Denise C. Gottfredson
Richard J. McNeil III
Gary D. Gottfredson
Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime	175	(26)
Harold G. Grasmick
Charles R. Tittle
Robert J. Bursik Jr.
Bruce J. Arneklev
Destiny and Drift: Subcultural Preferences, Status Attainments, and the Risks and Rewards of Youth	201	(16)
John Hagan
Urban Poverty and the Family Context of Delinquency: A New Look at Structure and Process in a Classic Study	217	(18)
Robert J. Sampson
John H. Laub
The Cycle of Crime and Socialization Practices	235	(18)
John McCord
Racial Inequality and Racially Disaggregated Homicide Rates: An Assessment of Alternative Theoretical Explanations	253	(26)
Steven F. Messner
Reid M. Golden
Dueling Paradigms: Modernist versus Postmodernist Thought	279	(26)
Dragan Milovanovic
Enduring Individual Differences and Rational Choice Theories of Crime	305	(30)
Daniel S. Nagin
Raymond Paternoster
Caste, Class, and Violent Crime: Explaining Difference in Female Offending	335	(22)
Sally S. Simpson
A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence	357	(14)
Mark C. Stafford
Mark Warr
Testing Interactional Theory: An Examination of Reciprocal Causal Relationships Among Family, School, and Delinquency	371	(34)
Terence P. Thornberry
Alan J. Lizotte
Marvin D. Krohn
Margaret Farnworth
Sung Joon Jang
Acknowledgments	405