Of Crime and Criminality

The Use of Theory in Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7619-8638-6
Verlag: Pineforge Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agnew, Robert

Simpson, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude - Sally S Simpson
Introductory Chapter - Don C Gibbons
Criminology, Criminologists, and Criminological Theory
PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER, RACE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINALITY AND CRIME CONTROL
Differential Association Theory and Female Crime - Peggy C Giordana and Sharon Mohler Rockwell
Feminist Theories of Women's Crime - Jody Miller
Robbery as a Case Study
Racial Hoaxes - Katheryn K Russell
Applied Critical Race Theory
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy - Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson
A Neo-Marxian Theory of New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY UPDATED
The Systematic Theory of Neighborhood Crime Rates - Robert J Bursik Jr
Strain Theory and School Crime - Robert Agnew
The Dramatization of Evil - Ruth Triplett
Reacting to Juvenile Delinquency During the 1990's
PART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY - NEW IDEAS, APPLICATION, AND ISSUES
The Social Control of Corporate Criminals - Sally S Simpson, M Lyn Exum, and N Craig Smith
Shame and Informal Sanction Threats
Whither the Beast? - Jeffrey Bouffard, M Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster
The Role of Emotions as a Rational Choice Theory of Crime
Understanding Illicit Drug Use - Paul Maxerolle
Lessons from Developmental Theory
The Routine Activity Approach as a General Crime Theory - Marcus Felson

Über Autor(innen)

Simpson, Sally
Sally S. Simpson is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include corporate crime, criminological theory, and the intersection between gender, race, class, and crime.

Simpson is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and,in 2008, was named Distinguished Scholar by the Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology. Simpson has served as President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is former Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association and past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium. Recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology, in 2010 Simpson was named Woman of the Year by the President's Commission on Women's Issues at the Unviersity of Maryland.