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Of Crime and Criminality
The Use of Theory in Everyday Life

Edited by:

Sally Simpson - University of Maryland, USA

Courses:
Criminological Theory

February 2000 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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.

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Sally S Simpson

Prelude

Don C Gibbons

Introductory Chapter

Criminology, Criminologists, and Criminological Theory

PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER, RACE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINALITY AND CRIME CONTROL

Peggy C Giordana and Sharon Mohler Rockwell

Differential Association Theory and Female Crime

Jody Miller

Feminist Theories of Women's Crime

Robbery as a Case Study

Katheryn K Russell

Racial Hoaxes

Applied Critical Race Theory

Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson

The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy

A Neo-Marxian Theory of New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy

PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY UPDATED

Robert J Bursik Jr

The Systematic Theory of Neighborhood Crime Rates

Robert Agnew

Strain Theory and School Crime

Ruth Triplett

The Dramatization of Evil

Reacting to Juvenile Delinquency During the 1990's

PART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY - NEW IDEAS, APPLICATION, AND ISSUES

Sally S Simpson, M Lyn Exum, and N Craig Smith

The Social Control of Corporate Criminals

Shame and Informal Sanction Threats

Jeffrey Bouffard, M Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster

Whither the Beast?

The Role of Emotions as a Rational Choice Theory of Crime

Paul Maxerolle

Understanding Illicit Drug Use

Lessons from Developmental Theory

Marcus Felson

The Routine Activity Approach as a General Crime Theory

good fit

Dr Lynn DeSpain

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Regis University - Denver

May 17, 2011

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A very good text which was clear and well written for u/g and p/g.

Dr Daniel McCarthy

Department of Sociology, Surrey University

September 2, 2010

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