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Informationen zum Autor Stuart Henry, Professor, Director of the School of Public Administration & Urban Studies, San Diego State University, USA and Scott A. Lukas, Professor of Anthropology & Sociology, Lake Tahoe Community College, USA. Zusammenfassung Contains sections including Classical and Rational Choice; Biological and Biosocial; Psychological; Social Learning and Neutralization; Social Control; Social Ecology, Sub-cultural and Cultural; Anomie and Strain; Conflict and Radical; Feminist and Gender; and, Critical Criminologies: Anarchist, Postmodernist, Peacemaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Classical and Rational Choice Theories: Rational choice! deterrence! and theoretical integration! David A. Ward! Mark C. Stafford and Louis N. Gray; A crying shame: the over-rationalized conception of man in the rational choice perspective! Willem de Haan and Jaco Vos. Part II Biological and Biosocial Theories: A theory explaining biological correlates of criminality! Lee Ellis; Behavior genetics and anomie/strain theory! Anthony Walsh. Part III Psychological Theories: An alternative psychology of criminal behavior! Julie Horney; A sociocognitive analysis of substance abuse: an agentic perspective! Albert Bandura. Part IV Social Learning and Neutralization Theories: Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities! Albert Bandura; When being good is bad: an expansion of neutralization theory! Volkan Topalli. Part V Social Control Theories: In defense of self-control! Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson; Refining control balance theory! Charles R. Tittle. Part VI Social Ecology! Subcultural and Cultural Theories: Transcending tradition: new directions in community research! Chicago style! Robert J. Sampson; New directions in social disorganization theory! Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer. Part VII Anomie and Strain Theories: Anomie! social change and crime! Jon Gunnar Bernburg; Building on the foundation of general strain theory: specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency! Robert Agnew. Part VIII Conflict and Radical Theories: Revisionist history! visionary criminology! and needs-based justice! Gregg Barak; The state of the criminology of crimes of the state! Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs. Part IX Feminist and Gender Theories: Patriarchy! crime! and justice: feminist criminology in an era of backlash! Meda Chesney-Lind; Feminist state theory: applications to jurisprudence! criminology! and the welfare state! Lynne A Haney. Part X Critical Criminologies: Anarchist! Postmodernist! Peacemaking: Constitutive criminology: origins! core concepts! and evaluation! Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; Against the law: anarchist criminology! Jeff Ferrell; Restorative justice: what is it and does it work?! Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Part XI Conclusion: Interdisciplinary integration: building criminology by stealing from our friends! D. Wayne Osgood; Name Index. ...
