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Klappentext Zusammenfassung Provides a thorough introduction to the key traditional and contemporary theories of crime and how they affect policy Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCHAPTER 1: The Context and Consequences of Theory Theory in Social Context Theory and Policy: Ideas Have Consequences Context, Theory, and Policy: Plan of the Book Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 2: The Search for the "Criminal Man" Spiritualism The Classical School: Criminal as Calculator The Positivist School: Criminal as Determined The Consequence of Theory: Policy Implications Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 3: Rejecting Individualism: The Chicago School The Chicago School of Criminology: Theory in Context Shaw and McKay's Theory of Juvenile Delinquency Sutherland's Theory of Differential Association The Chicago School's Criminological Legacy Control and Culture in the Community Akers's Social Learning Theory The Consequences of Theory: Policy Implications Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 4: Crime in American Society: Anomie and Strain Theories Merton's Strain Theory Status Discontent and Delinquency The Criminological Legacy of "Classic" Strain Theory Agnew's General Strain Theory A Theory of African American Offending Crime and the American Dream: Institutional-Anomie Theory The Market Economy and Crime The Future of Strain Theory The Consequences of Theory: Policy Implications Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 5: Society as Insulation: The Origins of Control Theory Forerunners of Control Theory Early Control Theories Reckless's Containment Theory Sykes and Matza: Neutralization and Drift Theory Control Theory in Context Further ReadingsCHAPTER 6: The Complexity of Control: Hirschi's Two Theories and Beyond Hirschi's First Theory: Social Bonds and Delinquency Hirschi's Second Theory: Self-Control and Crime The Complexity of Control The Consequences of Theory: Policy Implications Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 7: The Irony of State Intervention: Labeling Theory The Social Construction of Crime Labeling as Criminogenic: Creating Career Criminals The Consequences of Theory: Policy Implications Extending Labeling Theory Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 8: Social Power and the Construction of Crime: Conflict Theory Forerunners of Conflict Theory Theory in Context: The Turmoil of the 1960s Advancing Conflict Theory: Turk, Chambliss, and Quinney Conflict Theory and the Causes of Crime Consequences of Conflict Theory Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 9: The Variety of Critical Theory Modernity and Postmodernity Postmodern Criminological Thought: The End of Grand Narratives? Looking Back at Early British and European Influences Early Left Realism The New Criminology Revisited Left Realism Today Changing Social Context New Directions in Criminological Theory: Death and the Birth of New Ideas The New European Criminology Green Criminology Cultural Criminology Convict Criminology Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 10: The Gendering of Criminology: Feminist Theory Background Prefeminist Pioneers and Themes The Emergence of New Questions: Bringing Women In The Second Wave: From Women's Emancipation to Patriarchy Varieties of Feminist Thought The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender Masculinities and Crime Gendering Criminology Postmodernist Feminism and the Third Wave Consequences of Feminist Theory: Policy Implications Conclusion Further ReadingsCHAPTER 11: Crimes of the Powerful: Theories of White-Collar Crime The Discovery of White-Collar Crime: Edwin H. Sutherland Organizational C...
