“If students read only about and not in criminology, their experience is but secondhand, and their conclusions are determined by textbook authors,” says Joseph Jacoby in the preface to this edition of his well-known collection, Classics of Criminology. By reading scholarly works in their original form, readers can share in the discovery and unfolding of powerful ideas in each author’s own words. Classics of Criminology is a compilation of writings produced over the last 240 years. These writings represent the most influential approaches to describing and explaining crime and the social responses to crime. The organization of the collection enables readers to follow the development and application of key ideas from one major author to the next.
The Third Edition offers sixty-five essential selections—seventeen of which are new to this edition and include such topics as environmental criminology, criminal careers, general strain theory, self-control theory, feminist theory, women’s prison culture, and the effectiveness of correctional treatment. This expanded, balanced collection of scholarly works in their original form provides easy and affordable access to multiple perspectives.
Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.
Preface
Section I The Classic Descriptions of Crime
1.What Is a Gang?
-- Frederick M.Thrasher
2.The Professional Thief
-- Edwin H.Sutherland
3.White-Collar Criminality
-- Edwin H.Sutherland
4.Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
-- Clifford R.Shaw and Henry D.McKay
5.The Criminal and His Victim
-- Hans von Hentig
6.Victim-Precipitated Criminal Homicide
-- Marvin E.Wolfgang
7.Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery
-- National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
8.Delinquency in a Birth Cohort
-- Marvin E.Wolfgang, Thorsten Sellin, and Robert Figlio
9.Social Change and Crime: A Routine Activity Approach
-- Lawrence E.Cohen and Marcus Felson
10.Environmental Criminology
-- Paul J.Brantingham and Patricia L.Brantingham
11.Characterizing Criminal Careers
-- Alfred Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen
12.Crime and Deviance over the Life Course:
The Salience of Adult Social Bonds
-- Robert J.Sampson and John H.Laub
13.Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil
-- Jack Katz
Section II Theories of Causation of Crime
14.An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
-- Jeremy Bentham
15.Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy
-- Ronald V.Clarke and Derek B.Cornish
16.The Normal and the Pathological
-- Emile Durkheim
17.Class Conflict and Law
-- Karl Marx
18.Class, State, and Crime
-- Richard Quinney
19.Criminal Man
-- Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
20.The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, and Heredity
-- Richard Dugdale
21.Feeble-mindedness
-- H.H.Goddard
22.The Individual Delinquent
-- William Healy
23.The American Criminal
-- Ernest A.Hooton
24.Criminology as an Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science
-- C.R.Jeffery
25.Crime and Human Nature
-- James Q.Wilson and Richard J.Herrnstein
26.Suicide
-- Emile Durkheim
27.Social Structure and Anomie
-- Robert K.Merton
28.Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
-- Robert Agnew
29.Culture Conflict and Crime
-- Thorsten Sellin
30.Differential Systems of Values
-- Clifford R.Shaw and Henry D.McKay
31.The Content of the Delinquent Subculture
-- Albert K.Cohen
32.Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
-- Walter B.Miller
33, Techniques of Neutralization
-- Gresham M.Sykes and David Matza
34.Differential Association
Edwin H.Sutherland
35.A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior
-- Robert L.Burgess and Ronald L.Akers
36.Delinquency and Opportunity
-- Richard A.Cloward and Lloyd E.Ohlin
37.Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency
-- Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck
38.A Control Theory of Delinquency
-- Travis Hirschi
39.A General Theory of Crime
Michael R.Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi
40.The Dramatization of Evil
-- Frank Tannenbaum
41.Primary and Secondary Deviation
-- Edwin Lemert
42.Outsiders
Howard S.Becker
43.The Etiology of Female Crime: A Review of the Literature
-- Dorie Klein
44.Girls' Crime and Woman's Place:
Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency
-- Meda Chesney-Lind
Section III The Social Response to Crime
45.Of Crimes and Punishments
-- Cesare Beccaria
46.The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society
-- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration o f Justice
47.Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments
--Andrew von Hirsch
48.Punishment and Social Structure
-- Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer
49.The Law of Vagrancy
-- William J.Chambliss
50.Two Models of the Criminal Process
-- Herbert L.Packer
51.Violence and the Police
-- William A.Westley
52.A Sketch of the Policeman's "Working Personality"
-- Jerome H.Skolnick
53.Police Control of Juveniles
-- Donald J.Black and Albert J.Reiss, Jr.
54.The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
-- George L.Kelling, Tony Pate,
Duane Dieckman, and Charles E.Brown
55.Florence Nightingale in Pursuit of Willie Sutton: A Theory of the Police
-- Egon Bittner
56.Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety
-- James Q.Wilson and George L.Kelling
57.The Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault
-- Lawrence W.Sherman and Richard A.Berk
58.The American Reformatory Prison System
-- Zebulon Reed Brockway
59.Discipline and Punish
-- Michel Foucault
60.Prisonization
-- Donald Clemmer
61.The Pains of Imprisonment
-- Gresham M.Sykes
62.The Inmate Social System
-- Gresham M.Sykes and Sheldon L.Messinger,
63.Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison
-- Rose Giallombardo
64.Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison
-- Craig Haney, Curtis Banks, and Philip Zimbardo
65.What Works?---Questions and Answers about Prison Reform
-- Robert Martinson