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Thomas Bernard, Thomas Snipes Bernard, Bernard Thomas, Jeffrey Snipes, Rick Trinkner

Vold''s Theoretical Criminology

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The standard text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known by scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical approach, it discusses both classic and contemporary theories, presenting historical context and empirical research for each one. The book concludes with a chapter on assessing theories and their policy implications.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Theory and Crime

1.1 Spiritual Explanations

1.2 Natural Explanations

1.3 Scientific Theories

1.4 Causation in Scientific Theories

1.5 Three Categories of Criminological Theories

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 2: Classical Criminology

2.1 The Social and Intellectual Background of Classical Criminology

2.2 Beccaria and the Classical School

2.3 The Neoclassical School

2.4 From Classical Theory to Deterrence Research

2.5 Nagin's Review of Deterrence Research

2.6 Rational Choice and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

2.7 Routine Activities and Victimization

2.8 Focused Deterrence: Operation Ceasefire

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 3: Bioscocial Criminology

3.1 Background: Physical Appearance And Defectiveness

3.2 Lombroso, the Born Criminal, and Positivist Criminology

3.3 Goring's Refutation of the Born Criminal

3.4 Body Type Theories

3.5 Family Studies

3.6 Twin and Adoption Studies

3.7 Epigenetics and the Role of Heritability Studies in Biosocial Criminology

3.8 MAOA: The Warrior Gene

3.9 Hormones

3.10 The Neural Basis of Crime

3.11 Environmentally Induced Biological Components of Behavior

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 4: Psychological Factors and Criminal Behavior

4.1 Intelligence and Crime: Background Ideas and Concepts

4.2 IQ Tests and Criminal Behavior

4.3 Delinquency, Race, and IQ

4.4 Interpreting the Association Between Delinquency and IQ

4.5 Personality and Criminal Behavior: An Overview

4.6 Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

4.7 Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder

4.8 Depression and Delinquency

4.9 Trait Perspectives and the Five Factor Model of Personality

4.10 Impulsivity and Crime

4.11 Moffitt's Life-Course-Persistent Offenders

4.12 Clinical Prediction of Future Dangerousness

4.13 Actuarial Prediction of Later Crime and Delinquency

4.14 Policy Implications of Personality Research

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 5: Durkheim, Anomie, and Modernization

5.1 Emile Durkheim

5.2 Crime as Normal in Mechanical Societies

5.3 Anomie as a Pathological State in Organic Societies

5.4 Durkheim's Theory of Crime

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 6: Strain Theories

6.1 Robert K. Merton and Anomie in American Society

6.2 Cohen's Middle Class Measuring Rod

6.3 Cloward and Ohlin's Typology of Gangs

6.4 1960s Strain-Based Policies

6.5 The Decline and Resurgence of Strain Theories

6.6 Agnew's General Strain Theory

6.7 Messner and Rosenfeld's Institutional Anomie Theory

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 7: Neighborhoods and Crime

7.1 The Theory of Human Ecology

7.2 Research in The Delinquency Areas of Chicago

7.3 Policy Implications

7.4 Residential Succession, Social Disorganization, and Crime

7.5 Sampson's Theory of Collective Efficacy

7.6 Neighborhood Disorder, Crime, and Policing

7.7 Crime in Public Housing

7.8 Social Disorganization and Crime in Rural Areas

7.9 Expanding Interest in Neighborhood Social Processes

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 8: Learning Theories

8.1 Basic Psychological Approaches to Learning

8.2 Tarde's Laws of Imitation and Bandura's Social Learning Theory

8.3 Sutherland's Differential Association Theory

8.4 Research Testing Sutherland's Theory

8.5 The Content of Learning: Cultural and Subcultural Theories

8.6 The Learning Process: Akers's Social Learning Theory

8.7 Assessing Social Learning Theory

8.8 Athens's Theory of Violentization

8.9 Katz's Seductions of Crime

8.10 Labeling Theories

8.11 Implications

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 9: Control Theories

9.1 Early Control Theories: Reiss to Nye

9.2 Matza's Delinquency and Drift

9.3 Hirschi's Social Control Theory

9.4 Assessing Social Control Theory

9.5 Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime

9.6 Assessing Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 10: Conflict Criminology

10.1 Early Conflict Theories: Sellin and Vold

10.2 Conflict Theories in A Time of Conflict: Turk, Quinney, And Chambliss and Seidman

10.3 Black's Theory of The Behavior of Law

10.4 A Unified Conflict Theory of Crime

10.5 Minority Threat Theory

10.6 Cumulative Disadvantage in The American Criminal Justice System

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 11: Marxist, Postmodern, and Green Criminology

11.1 Overview of Marx's Theory

11.2 Marx on Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice

11.3 The Emergence of Marxist Criminology

11.4 Marxist Theory and Research on Crime

11.5 Overview of Postmodernism

11.6 Postmodern Criminology

11.7 Green Criminology

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 12: Gender and Crime

12.1 The Development of Feminist Criminology

12.2 Schools of Feminist Criminology

12.3 Gender in Criminology

12.4 Why Are Women's Crime Rates So Low?

12.5 Why Are Men's Crime Rates So High?

12.6 The Narrowing of The Gender Gap in Violence

12.7 Beyond the Gender Gap

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 13: Developmental and Life-Course Theories

13.1 The Great Debate: Criminal Careers, Longitudinal Research, and the Relationship Between Age and Crime

13.2 Criminal Propensity Versus Criminal Career

13.3 The Transition to Developmental Criminology

13.4 Three Developmental Directions

13.5 New Directions in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 14: Integrated Theories

14.1 Elliott's Integrated Theory of Delinquency and Drug Use

14.2 The Falsification Versus Integration Debate

14.3 Braithwaite's Theory of Reintegrative Shaming

14.4 Tittle's Control Balance Theory

14.5 Differential Coercion and Social Support Theory

14.6 Bernard and Snipes's Approach to Integrating Criminology Theories

14.7 Agnew's General Theory

14.8 Gottschalk's Theory of Convenience

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Chapter 15: Theory and Policy in Context

15.1 Crime in the United States: The Past Half-Century

15.2 Two Opposing Narratives of the Crime Wave

15.3 Explaining the 1990s Decline

15.4 The City That Became Safe

15.5 Crime in the U.S. During the Pandemic

Conclusions

Key Terms

Discussion Questions

Conclusion

What is the State of Criminological Theory?

How Should Theory Be Most Relevant to Policy?

Index

About the author

Jeffrey B. Snipes: Ph.D. SUNY Albany, J.D. Stanford, Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco
State

Thomas J. Bernard: Ph.D. SUNY Albany, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Penn State (deceased)

Alexander L. Gerould: J .D. Univ of San Francisco, Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State

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Product details

Authors	Thomas Bernard, Thomas Snipes Bernard, Bernard Thomas, Jeffrey Snipes, Rick Trinkner
Publisher	Oxford University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.03.2024

EAN	9780197750438
ISBN	978-0-19-775043-8
No. of pages	488
Subjects	Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects

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