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The essential criminology reader / edited by Stuart Henry and Mark M. Lanier.

Henry, Stuart. (Added Author). Lanier, Mark. (Added Author).

Summary:

Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry's best-selling Essential Criminology textbook, this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses. The Essential Criminology Reader contains 30 original articles on current developments in criminological theory. Commissioned specifically for The Reader, these short essays were written by leading scholars in the field. Each chapter complements one of 13 different theoretical perspectives covered in Lanier and Henry's Essential Criminology text and contains between two and three articles from leading theorists on each perspective. Each chapter of The Reader features: a brief summary of the main ideas of the theory the ways the author's theory has been misinterpreted/distorted criticisms by others of the theory and how the author has responded a summary of the balance of the empirical findings the latest developments in their theoretical position policy implications/practice of their theory.

Record details

ISBN: 9781283008914
ISBN: 1283008912
ISBN: 9780786738359
ISBN: 0786738359
Physical Description: 1 online resource (504)
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface and Introduction; 1 Classical and Rational Choice Theories; 1.1 Free Will and Determinism? Reading Beccaria's Of Crimes and Punishments (1764) as a Text of Enlightenment by Piers Beirne; 1.2 The Rational Choice Perspective by Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke; 2 Biological and Biosocial Theories; 2.1 Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Criminology Rethinking Criminological Tradition by Nicole Rafter; 2.2 Integrating Findings from Neurobiology into Criminological Thought Issues, Solutions, and Implications by Diana H. Fishbein; 3 Psychological Theories 3.1 Forty Years of the Yochelson/Samenow Work A Perspective by Stanton E. Samenow3.2 Contributions of Community Psychology to Criminal Justice Prevention Research and Intervention by Sarah Livsey and William S. Davidson II; 4 Social Learning and Neutralization Theory; 4.1 Social Learning Theory Correcting Misconceptions by Christine S. Sellers and Ronald L. Akers; 4.2 Techniques of Neutralization by W. William Minor; 5 Social Control Theories; 5.1 Social Control and Self-Control Theory by Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson 5.2 Social Control Theory and Direct Parental Controls by Joseph H. Rankin and L. Edward Wells6 Social Ecology and Subcultural Theories; 6.1 Social Ecology and Collective Efficacy Theory by Robert J. Sampson; 6.2 Gangs as Social Actors by John M. Hagedorn; 7 Anomie and Strain Theories; 7.1 General Strain Theory by Robert Agnew; 7.2 The Origins, Nature, and Prospects of Institutional-Anomie Theory by Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner; 7.3 Global Anomie Theory and Crime by Nikos Passas; 8 Conflict and Radical Theories; 8.1 Criminology and Conflict Theory by Austin T. Turk 8.2 The New Radical Criminology and the Same Old Criticisms by Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky9 Feminist and Gender Theories; 9.1 Feminist Thinking About Crime by Kathleen Daly; 9.2 Masculinities and Theoretical Criminology by James W. Messerschmidt; 10 Postmodernism and Critical Cultural Theory; 10.1 Postmodern Theory and Criminology by Bruce A. Arrigo; 10.2 Edgework: Negotiating Boundaries by Dragan Milovanovic; 10.3 Cultural Criminology by Jeff Ferrell; 11 Anarchism, Peacemaking, and Restorative Justice; 11.1 Needs-Based Anarchist Criminology by Larry Tifft and Dennis Sullivan 11.2 Peacemaking by Hal Pepinsky11.3 Reintegrative Shaming by John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, and Eliza Ahmed; 12 Left Realist Theories; 12.1 Inequality, Community, and Crime by Elliott Currie; 12.2 Left Realist Theory by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz; 13 Integrated Theories and Pause for Reflection; 13.1 The Integrated Systems Theory of Antisocial Behavior by Matthew Robinson; 13.2 Applying Integrated Theory A Reciprocal Theory of Violence and Nonviolence by Gregg Barak; 13.3 Criminologist as Witness by Richard Quinney; Contributors; Index
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