Criminological Theories

Suzette Cote is Assistant Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that primarily deal with criminological theory, sex offenses and offenders, and family violence, child abuse, and elder abuse. She received her law degree with a concentration in Family Law (SUNY at Buffalo School of Law, 1998). Cote's dissertation, Modernity, Risk, and Contemporary Crime Control Strategies as Risk Management: An Analysis of Sex Offender Statutes and the Shift Toward a Risk Society, focuses on the shift in penal practices away from rehabilitation and treatment of individual criminals and towards the management of dangerous classes offenders. A forthcoming publication, "Megan's Law in California: The CD-ROM and the Changing Nature of Crime Control," will be published in an edited text, Sexual Violence: Policies, Practices, and Challenges (tentative title) by Debra S. Kelley and James Hodgson (Greenwood Publishing Group).

PART I: CRIME, CRIMINOLOGY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1. Twenty Years of Testing Theories: What Have We Learned and Why? - Thomas J. Bernard 2. The Criminological Enterprise in Europe and the United States - Ineke Haen Marshall 3. Conceptualizing Criminal Justice Theory - Thomas J. Bernard & Robin Shepard Engel PART II: BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF CRIME 4. Biological Perspectives in Criminology - Diana H. Fishbein 5. Criminology and The Holocaust: Xenophobia, Evolution, and Genocide - Augustine Brannigan PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF CRIME 6. Delinquency Rates and Community Characteristics - Clifford R. Shaw & Henry D. McKay 7. Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime: Implications for Social Disorganization Theory - Dina R. Rose & Todd R. Clear 8. The Subculture of Violence - Marvin E. Wolfgang & Franco Ferracuti 9. Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton 10. Crime and the American Dream - Steven F. Messner & Richard Rosenfeld 11. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency - Robert Agnew PART IV: SOCIAL PROCESS THEORIES OF CRIME 12. A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior - Edwin H. Sutherland 13. A Social Learning Theory of Crime - Ronald L. Akers 14. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency - Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza 15. Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency - John Hagan, John Simpson, & A. R. Gillis 16. Charles Tittle's Control Balance and Criminological Theory - John Braithwaite 17.Thoughts Stimulated by Braithwaite's Analysis of Control Balance Theory - Charles R. Tittle 18. The Dynamic Nature of Deviance - John Curra 19. Deviance on the Record: Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents - Leslie Margolin 20. Parental Sanctions and Delinquent Behavior: Toward Clarification of Braithwaite's Theory of Reintegration - Carter Hay 21. Is "White Collar Crime" Crime? - Edwin H. Sutherland 22. The Nature of Criminality: Low-Self Control - Michael R. Gottfredson & Travis Hirschi 23. Organizational Offending and Neoclassical Criminology: Challenging the Reach of a General Theory of Crime - Gary E. Reed & Peter Cleary Yeager PART V. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY 24. Marx, Engels, and Bonger on Crime and Social Control - Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, & Jock Young 25. Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory - Stuart Henry & Dragan Milovanovic 26. Postmodern Criminology in Relation to Radical and Conflict Criminology - Bruce A. Arrigo and Thomas J. Bernard 27. "Three Strikes" as Public Policy: The Convergence of the New Penology and the McDonaldization of Punishment - David Shichor 28. Feminism and Criminology - Kathleen Daly and Meda Chesney-Lind 29. Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology - Kathleen Daly PART VI: INTEGRATED THEORIES AND UNIQUE APPROACHES 30. Crime as a Rational Choice - Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke 31. Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis - Marcus Felson 32. Adolescent-Limited and Life Course Persistent Anti-Social Behavior - Terrie E. Moffitt 33. The Development of Offending - Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber 34. Integrated Theoretical Perspective on Delinquent Behavior - Delbert S. Elliott, Suzanne S. Ageton, & Rachelle J. Canter 35. Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency - Terence P. Thornberry 36. Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory - Anthony Walsh Selected References Index About the Editor