Crime

Readings
Third Edition
Robert D. Crutchfield - University of Washington, USA
Charis E. Kubrin
George S. Bridges - Whitman College, USA
Joseph G. Weis - University of Washington, USA
Crime
September 2007 | 528 pages | Sage US
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The Third Edition of Crime: Readings features the latest theoretical and empirical works on crime, maintaining an ideal balance between major theoretical explanations of crime and crime control and each respective theoretical treatment while tying in policy issues. Updated and revised, the readings in this edition have been carefully pruned by the editors for maximum impact, providing undergraduate students with an accessible introduction to major issues in the field while eliminating excessive technical, methodological details that might hamper comprehension. This anthology includes both traditional yet still vital theories used by scholars of crime and newer explanations for law-violating behavior. Covering a realm of diverse criminological literature, the editors include a variety of readings that reflect the range of perspectives about the causes of criminal behavior and how best such behavior should be addressed.

New to the Third Edition

  • Links criminological theories with the latest empirical research: The book features even more discussion of the ties between theory and actual policy in the Part introductions and in several new articles.
  • Highlights recent developments in the field: The editors address a number of new issues related to crime control and also place greater emphasis on critical criminology, psychological, and biological approaches.
  • Recognizes the growing importance of comparative criminology: This edition includes a number of articles by criminologists from outside of North America, providing a more comprehensive and global perspective.
  • Keeps readers up-to-date in the literature: The sections on the history of criminology, research methods, and correlates of crime incorporate recent publications, and the section on enduring and changing patterns now includes entries on gangs, sex offenders, cyber crime, and terrorism.
  • Inspires students to think critically about the theory and research of crime: Revised discussion and essay questions maximize student reflection on the concepts covered and include web-based data to give students practical experience working with criminological research.

Companion Web Site
Homework assignments and data exercises have been moved to a companion Web site at www.sagepub.com/crimereadings3study.

Intended Audience

This is an excellent text for undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Criminology and Criminological Theory in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, law and society, and social work.

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Preface

Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists

Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists

Part I: What Is Criminology? The History and Definitions of Crime and Criminology

  • Defining Crime: An Issue of Morality
  • Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics

Part II: How Do We View Crime? Images of Crime, Criminality, and Criminal Justice

  • A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality?
  • Realities and Images of Crack Mothers
  • Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime
  • The Politics of Crime

Part III: Enduring and Changing Patterns of Crime

  • Youth Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparison
  • Specialization and Persistence in the Arrest Histories of Sex Offenders: A Comparitive Analysis of Alternative Measures and Offense Types
  • The Novelty of 'Cybercrime': An Assessment in Light of Routine Activity Theory
  • How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime?

Part IV: How is Crime Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Crime

  • Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates across U.S. Cities
  • Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency
  • Gender and Adolescent Relationship Violence: A Contextual Examination
  • The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur

Part V: Who Are the Criminals? The Distribution and Correlates of Crime

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence
  • Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Violence: Structural Disadvantage, Family Well-Being, and Social Capital
  • Age and the Explanation of Crime
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

Part VI: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part I

  • Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
  • Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence
  • A Theory of Crime: Differential Association
  • Differential Association in Group and Solo Offending
  • Social Structure and Anomie
  • Poverty, Socioeconomic Change, Institutional Anomie, and Homicide

Part VII: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part II

  • The Subculture of Violence
  • Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency
  • Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
  • Exploring the Utility of Social Control Theory for Youth Development: Issues of Attachment, Involvement, and Gender
  • Labeling Criminals
  • Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory
  • Crime and Subcultural Contradictions
  • Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences

Part VIII: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part I

  • The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control
  • The Stability and Resiliency of Self-Control in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders
  • Toward an Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
  • Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects
  • Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
  • Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide
  • Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
  • A Test of General Strain Theory

Part IX: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part II

  • The Code of the Streets
  • Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis
  • Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity
  • An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African-American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach
  • A Bio-Psychological Theory of Choice, from Crime and Human Nature
  • Human Ecology, Crime, and Crime Control: Linking Individual Behavior and Aggregate Crime
  • Males on the Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Pathways
  • The Relationships Among Self-Blame, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Victimization

Part X: How Do We Control Crime? Crime and Social Control

  • Strengthening Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream
  • Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety
  • The Changing Nature of the Death Penalty Debates
  • Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy
  • The Impact of Restorative Interventions on Juvenile Offenders
  • Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality

Description

The Third Edition of Crime: Readings features the latest theoretical and empirical works on crime, maintaining an ideal balance between major theoretical explanations of crime and crime control and each respective theoretical treatment while tying in policy issues. Updated and revised, the readings in this edition have been carefully pruned by the editors for maximum impact, providing undergraduate students with an accessible introduction to major issues in the field while eliminating excessive technical, methodological details that might hamper comprehension. This anthology includes both traditional yet still vital theories used by scholars of crime and newer explanations for law-violating behavior. Covering a realm of diverse criminological literature, the editors include a variety of readings that reflect the range of perspectives about the causes of criminal behavior and how best such behavior should be addressed.

New to the Third Edition

  • Links criminological theories with the latest empirical research: The book features even more discussion of the ties between theory and actual policy in the Part introductions and in several new articles.
  • Highlights recent developments in the field: The editors address a number of new issues related to crime control and also place greater emphasis on critical criminology, psychological, and biological approaches.
  • Recognizes the growing importance of comparative criminology: This edition includes a number of articles by criminologists from outside of North America, providing a more comprehensive and global perspective.
  • Keeps readers up-to-date in the literature: The sections on the history of criminology, research methods, and correlates of crime incorporate recent publications, and the section on enduring and changing patterns now includes entries on gangs, sex offenders, cyber crime, and terrorism.
  • Inspires students to think critically about the theory and research of crime: Revised discussion and essay questions maximize student reflection on the concepts covered and include web-based data to give students practical experience working with criminological research.

Companion Web Site
Homework assignments and data exercises have been moved to a companion Web site at www.sagepub.com/crimereadings3study.

Intended Audience

This is an excellent text for undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Criminology and Criminological Theory in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, law and society, and social work.

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Preface

Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists

Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists

Part I: What Is Criminology? The History and Definitions of Crime and Criminology

  • Defining Crime: An Issue of Morality
  • Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics

Part II: How Do We View Crime? Images of Crime, Criminality, and Criminal Justice

  • A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality?
  • Realities and Images of Crack Mothers
  • Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime
  • The Politics of Crime

Part III: Enduring and Changing Patterns of Crime

  • Youth Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparison
  • Specialization and Persistence in the Arrest Histories of Sex Offenders: A Comparitive Analysis of Alternative Measures and Offense Types
  • The Novelty of 'Cybercrime': An Assessment in Light of Routine Activity Theory
  • How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime?

Part IV: How is Crime Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Crime

  • Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates across U.S. Cities
  • Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency
  • Gender and Adolescent Relationship Violence: A Contextual Examination
  • The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur

Part V: Who Are the Criminals? The Distribution and Correlates of Crime

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence
  • Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Violence: Structural Disadvantage, Family Well-Being, and Social Capital
  • Age and the Explanation of Crime
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

Part VI: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part I

  • Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
  • Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence
  • A Theory of Crime: Differential Association
  • Differential Association in Group and Solo Offending
  • Social Structure and Anomie
  • Poverty, Socioeconomic Change, Institutional Anomie, and Homicide

Part VII: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part II

  • The Subculture of Violence
  • Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency
  • Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
  • Exploring the Utility of Social Control Theory for Youth Development: Issues of Attachment, Involvement, and Gender
  • Labeling Criminals
  • Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory
  • Crime and Subcultural Contradictions
  • Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences

Part VIII: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part I

  • The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control
  • The Stability and Resiliency of Self-Control in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders
  • Toward an Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
  • Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects
  • Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
  • Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide
  • Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
  • A Test of General Strain Theory

Part IX: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part II

  • The Code of the Streets
  • Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis
  • Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity
  • An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African-American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach
  • A Bio-Psychological Theory of Choice, from Crime and Human Nature
  • Human Ecology, Crime, and Crime Control: Linking Individual Behavior and Aggregate Crime
  • Males on the Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Pathways
  • The Relationships Among Self-Blame, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Victimization

Part X: How Do We Control Crime? Crime and Social Control

  • Strengthening Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream
  • Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety
  • The Changing Nature of the Death Penalty Debates
  • Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy
  • The Impact of Restorative Interventions on Juvenile Offenders
  • Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality

September 2007 | 528 pages | Sage US

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The Third Edition of Crime: Readings features the latest theoretical and empirical works on crime, maintaining an ideal balance between major theoretical explanations of crime and crime control and each respective theoretical treatment while tying in policy issues. Updated and revised, the readings in this edition have been carefully pruned by the editors for maximum impact, providing undergraduate students with an accessible introduction to major issues in the field while eliminating excessive technical, methodological details that might hamper comprehension. This anthology includes both traditional yet still vital theories used by scholars of crime and newer explanations for law-violating behavior. Covering a realm of diverse criminological literature, the editors include a variety of readings that reflect the range of perspectives about the causes of criminal behavior and how best such behavior should be addressed.

New to the Third Edition

  • Links criminological theories with the latest empirical research: The book features even more discussion of the ties between theory and actual policy in the Part introductions and in several new articles.
  • Highlights recent developments in the field: The editors address a number of new issues related to crime control and also place greater emphasis on critical criminology, psychological, and biological approaches.
  • Recognizes the growing importance of comparative criminology: This edition includes a number of articles by criminologists from outside of North America, providing a more comprehensive and global perspective.
  • Keeps readers up-to-date in the literature: The sections on the history of criminology, research methods, and correlates of crime incorporate recent publications, and the section on enduring and changing patterns now includes entries on gangs, sex offenders, cyber crime, and terrorism.
  • Inspires students to think critically about the theory and research of crime: Revised discussion and essay questions maximize student reflection on the concepts covered and include web-based data to give students practical experience working with criminological research.

Companion Web Site
Homework assignments and data exercises have been moved to a companion Web site at www.sagepub.com/crimereadings3study.

Intended Audience

This is an excellent text for undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Criminology and Criminological Theory in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, law and society, and social work.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists
  • Part I: What Is Criminology? The History and Definitions of Crime and Criminology
  • Defining Crime: An Issue of Morality
  • Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics
  • Part II: How Do We View Crime? Images of Crime, Criminality, and Criminal Justice
  • A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality?
  • Realities and Images of Crack Mothers
  • Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime
  • The Politics of Crime
  • Part III: Enduring and Changing Patterns of Crime
  • Youth Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparison
  • Specialization and Persistence in the Arrest Histories of Sex Offenders: A Comparitive Analysis of Alternative Measures and Offense Types
  • The Novelty of 'Cybercrime': An Assessment in Light of Routine Activity Theory
  • How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime?
  • Part IV: How is Crime Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Crime
  • Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates across U.S. Cities
  • Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency
  • Gender and Adolescent Relationship Violence: A Contextual Examination
  • The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur
  • Part V: Who Are the Criminals? The Distribution and Correlates of Crime
  • Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence
  • Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Violence: Structural Disadvantage, Family Well-Being, and Social Capital
  • Age and the Explanation of Crime
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Gender
  • Part VI: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part I
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
  • Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence
  • A Theory of Crime: Differential Association
  • Differential Association in Group and Solo Offending
  • Social Structure and Anomie
  • Poverty, Socioeconomic Change, Institutional Anomie, and Homicide
  • Part VII: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part II
  • The Subculture of Violence
  • Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency
  • Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
  • Exploring the Utility of Social Control Theory for Youth Development: Issues of Attachment, Involvement, and Gender
  • Labeling Criminals
  • Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory
  • Crime and Subcultural Contradictions
  • Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences
  • Part VIII: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part I
  • The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control
  • The Stability and Resiliency of Self-Control in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders
  • Toward an Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
  • Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects
  • Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
  • Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide
  • Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
  • A Test of General Strain Theory
  • Part IX: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part II
  • The Code of the Streets
  • Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis
  • Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity
  • An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African-American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach
  • A Bio-Psychological Theory of Choice, from Crime and Human Nature
  • Human Ecology, Crime, and Crime Control: Linking Individual Behavior and Aggregate Crime
  • Males on the Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Pathways
  • The Relationships Among Self-Blame, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Victimization
  • Part X: How Do We Control Crime? Crime and Social Control
  • Strengthening Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream
  • Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety
  • The Changing Nature of the Death Penalty Debates
  • Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy
  • The Impact of Restorative Interventions on Juvenile Offenders
  • Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality

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