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Preface; Contributors; Section I. Defining Criminology and Crime; 1. Criminology as Social Science, J. Mitchell Miller; 2. Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics, C. Ronald Huff; 3. Characteristics of the Criminal Law, Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey; 4. The State, the Law, and the Definition of Behavior as Criminal or Delinquent, William J. Chambliss; Section II. Observing and Measuring the Nature and Extent of Crime; 5. Are Uniform Crime Reports a Valid Indicator of the Index Crimes? An Affirmative Answer with Minor Qualifications, Walter R. Gove, Michael Hughes, and Michael Geerken; 6. Reassessing the Reliability and Validity of Self-Report Delinquency Measures, David Huizinga and Delbert S. Elliott; 7. Managing Rape: Exploratory Research on the Behavior of Rape Statistics, Gary F. Jensen and Maryaltani Karpos; 8. A Snowball’s Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars, Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, andDietrich L. Smith; 9. Covert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method, J. Mitchell Miller; Section III. Correlates of Crime; 10. Specifying the SES/Delinquency Relationship, Charles R. Tittle and Robert F. Meier; 11. Age and the Patterning of Crime, Darrell J. Steffensmeier and Jeffery Ulmer; 12. Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior, Daniel P. Mears, Matthew Ploeger, and Mark Warr; 13. Intelligence and Criminal Behavior, Scott Menard; 14. Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality, Joan McCord; 15. On Immigration and Crime, Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Matthew T. Lee; Section IV. Theories of Crime; 16. Formal and Informal Sanctions: A Comparison of Deterrent Effects, Linda S. Anderson, Theodore G. Chiricos, and Gordon P. Waldo; 17. The Criminal Man, Cesare Lombroso; 18. Does the Body Tell? Biological Characteristics and Criminal Disposition, David Row; 19. Personality and Crime: Are Some People Crime Prone?, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Phil A. Silva, Magda Stouthamer-Moeber, Robert F. Krueger, and Pamela S. Schmutte; 20. A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior, Edwin H. Sutherland; 21. A Social Learning Theory of Crime, Ronald L. Akers; 22. Lower-Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency, Walter B. Miller; 23. Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson; 24. Formal Characteristics of Delinquency Areas, Clifford R. Shaw and Henry McKay; 25. Routine Activity Theory, Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson; 26. A Control Theory of Delinquency, Travis Hirschi; 27. The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control, Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi; 28. Foundation for a General Theory of Crime, Robert Agnew; 29. Crime and the American Dream, Steven S. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; 30. Causes of Crime: A Radical View, Michael J. Lynch and W. Byron Groves; Section V. Criminological Observations of Crime; 31. Violent Crime in the United States, Albert J. Reiss, Jr. and Jeffrey A. Roth; 32. The Motivation to Commit Property Crimes, Kenneth D. Tunnell; 33. Organized Crime, Frank R. Scarpitti; 34. Casinos and Banking: Organized Crime in the Bahamas, Alan A. Block and Frank R. Scarpitti; 35. Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime, Michael L. Benson; 36. Trouble in the Schoolyard: A Study of Risk Factors of Victimization, Christopher J. Schreck, J. Mitchell Miller, Chris L. Gibson; 37. Researching Dealers and Smugglers, Patricia A. Adler; Section VI. Responses to Crime; 38. Police, Carl B. Klockars; 39. Racial Profiling, David A. Harris; 40. The Decision to Prosecute, George F. Cole; 41. Prostitution Control in America, Ronald Weitzer; 42. The Evidence in Favor of Prisons, Richard A. Wright; 43. Decriminalization, Samuel Walker

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