Criminology

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY; 1. THE PROBLEM OF CRIME; Images of Crime; Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminalization; Crime as a Sociological Problem; 2. THE MEASUREMENT OF CRIME; Caution: Data Do Not Speak for Themselves; Official Crime Data; Unofficial Crime Data; 3. INEQUALITY, CRIME, AND VICTIMIZATION; Class and Crime; Gender and Crime; Race and Crime; Age and Crime; PART II: TYPES OF CRIME; 4. PROPERTY CRIME; Robbery and Burglary; Varieties of Larceny; Dealing and Damage; 5. INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE; Murder, Assault, Hate Crimes, and Rape; Interpersonal Violence in the Family; Interpersonal Violence in the Workplace; 6. SYNDICATED CRIME; A History of Syndicated Crime; Syndicated Crime Today; Principal Forms of Syndicated Crime; 7. WHITE-COLLAR CRIME; Occupational Crime; Corporate Crime; Transnational Corporate Crime; 8. POLITICAL CRIME; Political Crimes Against the State; Domestic Political Crimes by the State; Transnational Political Crimes by the State; PART III: CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY; 9. THE ORIGINS OF CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY; The Enlightenment and Classical Criminology; The Emergence of Positivist Criminology; Criminal Anthropology: Lombroso's "Born Criminal"; Neoclassical Criminology; 10. THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY; Toward a Social Psychology of Crime: Gabriel Tarde; Toward a Sociology of Law and Crime: Emile Durkheim; Classical Marxism: Marx and Engels on State, Law, and Crime; 11.THE EMERGENCE OF CRIMINOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES; The Early History of Criminology in the United States, 1895-1915; Crime and Social Ecology; Social Structure, Anomie, and Deviance; The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland; 12. DELINQUENT SUBCULTURES AND SUBCULTURES OF DELINQUENCY; Delinquent Subcultures; Matza's Delinquency and Drift (1964); Control Theory; 13. THEORETICAL DIVERSITY; Social Learning Theory; The Labeling Perspective; Conflict Theory; Radical and Feminist Criminology; 14. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY; Routine Activities and Crime; Self-Control and Control Balance; Revised Strain Theory; Critical Criminologies; 15. COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY; Approaching Comparative Criminology; Comparative Crime and Victimization Data; Cross-National Generalizations Regarding Crime; U.S. Crime in Comparative Perspective