Essential Criminology

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-12
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Summary

The updated edition builds on the authors' acclaimed theory of the "Crime Prism"

Author Biography

Mark M. Lanier is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. He holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from Michigan State University with (1993). He taught at Eastern Michigan University from 1994-95. He has published numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary journals including public health, criminal justice, criminology, law and psychology. His funded research is on youth and HIV/AIDS and community policing. He was awarded Distinguished Researcher of the Year from the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida in 1997. He co-authored (with Stuart Henry) Essential Criminology (1998; 2004) and co-edited (with Stuart Henry) What is Crime? (2001). Stuart Henry is Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University. Dr. Henry’s research focuses on issues of crime, deviance and social control. He has 21 books published, including Criminological Theory (with Werner Einstadter, 1995) and Constitutive Criminology (with Dragan Milovanovic, 1996). His most recent books include: What is Crime? (with Mark Lanier, 2001) and Essential Criminology 2nd edition (with Mark Lanier, 2004). He serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology and Critical Criminology. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Integrative Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
What Is Criminology? The Study of Crime, Criminals, and Victims
1(17)
What Is Criminology?
3(3)
Criminological Theory
6(9)
Victimology
15(1)
Summary
16(2)
What Is Crime? Defining and Measuring the Crime Problem
18(50)
Legal Definition
20(2)
Consensus and Conflict Approaches
22(6)
Hagan's Pyramid of Crime
28(7)
The Prism of Crime
35(5)
Application of the Integrated Prism to School Violence
40(10)
Measuring Crime
50(1)
Government Measures of Crime
50(8)
What the UCR and NCVS Tell About Crime Trends
58(3)
Independent Crime Measures
61(4)
Summary
65(2)
Notes
67(1)
Classical, Neoclassical, and Rational Choice Theories
68(33)
The Preclassical Era
70(2)
The Classical Reaction
72(6)
Neoclassical Revisions
78(1)
Criminal Justice Implications: The Move to ``Justice'' Theory
79(10)
Redefining Rational Choice: Situational Factors and Routine Activities Theory
89(9)
Summary and Conclusion
98(1)
Summary Chart: Classical, Rational Choice, and Routine Activities Theories
99(2)
``Born to Be Bad'': Biological, Physiological, and Biosocial Theories of Crime
101(25)
Biological and Positivistic Assumptions
103(2)
The Born Criminal
105(2)
Early U.S. Family-Type and Body-Type Theories
107(3)
Contemporary Biological Perspectives
110(3)
Biosocial Criminology: A Developmental Explanation of Crime
113(10)
Summary and Conclusion
123(1)
Summary Chart: Biological Theory
124(2)
Criminal Minds: Psychiatric and Psychological Explanations for Crime
126(30)
From Sick Minds to Abnormal Behavior
129(1)
Shared Psychological Assumptions
130(1)
The Psychoanalytic Approach
131(6)
Trait-Based Personality Theories
137(6)
Behavioral, Situational, and Social Learning Theories
143(3)
Cognitive Theories
146(4)
Ecological Psychology
150(2)
Summary and Conclusion
152(1)
Summary Chart: Psychological Theories of Crime
153(2)
Notes
155(1)
Learning Criminal Behavior: Social Process Theories
156(23)
Common Themes and Different Assumptions
160(2)
Sutherland's Differential Association Theory
162(6)
Neutralization Theory: Learning Rationalizations as Motives
168(8)
Summary and Conclusion
176(1)
Summary Chart: Social Process Theories
177(2)
Failed Socialization: Control Theory, Social Bonds, and Labeling
179(26)
Control Theory: Learning Not to Commit Crime
182(9)
Labeling Theory: A Special Case of Failed Socialization?
191(11)
Summary and Conclusion
202(1)
Summary Chart: Control Theory and Labeling Theory
202(3)
Crimes of Place: Social Ecology and Cultural Theories of Crime
205(27)
Common Themes and Assumptions
207(2)
The Chicago School
209(6)
The New Social Ecology Theories
215(8)
Cultural Deviance Theories
223(3)
New Cultural Theory of Crime
226(2)
Summary and Conclusion
228(1)
Summary Chart: Social Ecology Theory and Culture Conflict Theory
229(3)
The Sick Society: Anomie and Strain Theory
232(27)
Assumptions of Strain Theory
234(2)
Founders of Strain Theory
236(12)
Recent Revisions to Anomie/Strain Theory
248(8)
Summary and Conclusion
256(1)
Summary Chart: Anomie/Strain Theory
256(3)
Capitalism as a Criminogenic Society: Conflict, Marxist, and Radical Theories of Crime
259(31)
Shared Assumptions and Differences: Conflict, Marxist, and Radical Theories
262(2)
The Roots of Conflict Criminology
264(5)
Contemporary Conflict Criminology
269(6)
The Roots of Radical Theory: Marx's Analysis of Capitalist Society
275(6)
Contemporary Radical Criminology
281(1)
Central Themes of Radical Criminology
281(7)
Summary and Conclusion
288(1)
Summary Chart: Conflict Theory and Radical Theory
288(2)
Patriarchy, Gender, and Crime: Feminist Criminological Theory
290(20)
Basic Assumptions of Feminist Criminology
292(4)
Liberal Feminism
296(3)
Radical Feminism
299(3)
Marxist Feminism
302(2)
Socialist Feminism
304(1)
Gendered Theory
305(1)
Epistemological Issues and Postmodern Feminism
306(1)
Conclusion
307(1)
Summary Chart: Feminism
308(2)
Criminologies for the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, an Issue of War or Peace?
310(31)
Globalization
311(6)
Postmodernism
317(10)
Making Peace, Not War
327(5)
Restorative Justice
332(3)
Left Realism
335(2)
Conclusion
337(1)
Summary Chart: Critical Criminologies
338(3)
Conclusion: Integrative Theory 341(12)
References 353(60)
Index 413

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