Jeffrey Snipes, Rick Trinkner, Thomas Bernard

Vold's Theoretical Criminology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 229mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780197750438
• ISBN-10: 0197750435
• Artikelnr.: 70141238

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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