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CRIMINOLOGY PRELIMINARY EXAM READING LIST (7/07)

Classical Readings

Beccaria, Cesare. 1764. “On crime and punishment.” Pp. 277-286 in Classics of Criminology

edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Bentham, Jeremy. 1789. “An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.” Pp. 80-

83 in Classics of Criminology edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press,

Inc.

Durkheim, Emile. 1893. “The normal and the pathological.” Pp. 84-88 in Classics of

Criminology edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Durkheim, Emile. 1903. “Attachment to social groups.” Pp. 247-250 in Classics of

Criminology.

Lombroso-Ferrero, Gina. 1911. “Criminal man.” Pp. 116-131 in Classics of Criminology


Parsons, Talcott. 1951. “Deviant behavior.” Pp. 274-280 in Farrell & Swigert.

Anomie/ Strain/ Social Disorganization

Agnew, Robert S. 1992. “Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency.”

Criminology 30:47-87.

Baron, Stephen W. 2004. “General Strain, Street Youth and Crime: A Test of Agnew’s Revised

Theory.” Criminology 42:457-483.

Bernard, Thomas J. 1987. “Testing structural strain theories.” Journal of Research in Crime

and Delinquency 24:262-290.

Brezina, Timothy. 1996. “Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping

Responses.” Criminology 34:39-59.

Brezina, Timothy. 2000. “Delinquent Problem-Solving: An Interpretive Framework for

Criminological Theory and Research.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 37:3-31.

Broidy, Lisa and Robert Agnew. 1997. “Gender and Crime: a general strain theory

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perspective.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 34:275-306.

Bursik, Robert J. 1988. “Social disorganization and theories of crime and delinquency:

problems and prospects.” Criminology 26:519-552.

Clear, Todd R., Dina R. Rose, Judith A. Ryder. 2001. “Incarceration and the Community: The

Problem of Removing and Returning Offenders.” Crime & Delinquency. 47(3): 335-351.

Clear, Todd R., Dina R. Rose, Elin Waring, and Kristen Scully. 2003. “Coercive Mobility and

Crime: A Preliminary Examination of Concentrated Incarceration and Social Disorganization.

Justice Quarterly. 20(1): 33-64.

Cloward, Richard A. and Lloyd E. Ohlin. 1961. “Delinquency and opportunity.” Pp. 236-240

in Classics of Criminology edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Cloward, Richard A. and Lloyd E. Ohlin. 1960. “Illegitimate means and delinquent

subcultures.” Pp. 305-309 in Farrell & Swigert.

Cloward, Richard A. and Lloyd E. Ohlin. 1960. Delinquency and Opportunity. New York:

The Free Press.

Cohen, Albert K. 1965. “The sociology of the deviant act: anomie theory and beyond.”

American Sociological Review 30:5-15.

Cohen, Albert K. 1955. “The content of the delinquent subculture.” Pp. 201-206 in Classics of


Cohen, Albert K. 1959. “Reference group identification and deviant behavior.” Pp. 281-288 in

Farrell & Swigert.

Cullen, Francis T. 1988. “Were Cloward and Ohlin strain theorists? Delinquency and

opportunity revisited.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25:214-241.

Durkheim, Emile (1951). “Anomie.” Pp. 262-266 in Farrell & Swigert.

Durkheim, Emile (1897). “Suicide.” Pp. 172-177 in Classics of Criminology edited by Joseph

E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Faris, Robert and H. Warren Dunham. 1965. “Natural Areas of the City.” Pp.74-82 in Theories

of Deviance (5th ed.) Edited by Stuart Traub and Craig Little. 1999. Peacock Publishers, Itasca,

Il.

Jang, Sung Joon and Byron R. Johnson. 2003. Strain, Negative Emotions, and Deviant Coping

Among African Americans: A Test of General Strain Theory.” Journal of Quantitative

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Kubrin, Charis E. and Ronald Weitzer. 2003. “New Directions in Social Disorganization

Theory.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 40(4): 374-402.

Land, Kenneth C., Patricia L. McCall and Lawrence E. Cohen. 1990. “Structural covariates of

homicide rates: are there any invariances across time and social space?” American Journal of

Sociology 95:922-963.

Lynch, James P. and William J. Sabol. 2004. “Assessing the Effects of Mass Incarceration on

Informal Social Control in Communities. Criminology & Public Policy. 3(2): 267-294.

Merton, R. 1938. “Social structure and anomie.” American Sociological Review 3:672-682.

Messner, Steven F. 1988. “Merton’s ‘social structure and anomie’: the road not taken.”

Deviant Behavior 9:33-53.

Park, Robert E. 1925. “Social Change and Social Disorganization.” Pp.71-74 in Theories of

Deviance (5th ed.) Edited by Stuart Traub and Craig Little. 1999. Peacock Publishers, Itasca, Il.

Paternoster, Raymond and Paul Mazerolle. 1994. “General strain theory and delinquency: a

replication and extension.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 31:235-263.

Rose, Dina R. and Todd R. Clear. 1998. “Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime: Implications

for Social Disorganization Theory.” Criminology. 36(3): 441-479.

Sampson, Robert J. and W. Byron Groves. 1989. “Community structure and crime: testing

social disorganization theory.” American Journal of Sociology 94:774-802.

Shaw, Clifford and Henry McKay. 1942. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press.

Slocum, Lee ann, Sally S. Simpson, and Douglas A. Smith. 2005. “Strained Lives and Crime:

Examining Intra-Individual Variation in Strain and Offending in a Sample of Incarcerated

Women.” Criminology 43:1067-1110.

Stark, Rodney. 1987. “Deviant places: a theory of the ecology of crime.” Criminology

25:893-909.

Thomas, W.I. and Florian Znaniecki. 1918. “The Concept of Social Disorganization.” Pp.67-70

in Theories of Deviance (5th ed.), edited by Stuart Traub and Craig Little. 1999. Peacock

Publishers, Itasca, Il.

Thrasher, Frederick (1927). “What is a gang?” Pp. 4-8 in Classics of Criminology edited by

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Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Social Control

Agnew, Robert. 1994. “The techniques of neutralization and violence.” Criminology 32:401-

425.

Agnew, Robert. 1993. “Why do they do it? An examination of the intervening mechanisms

between ‘social control’ variables and delinquency.” Journal of Research in Crime and

Delinquency 30:245-266.

Braithwaite, John. 1981. “The myth of social class and criminality reconsidered.” American

Sociological Review 46:36-57.

Braithewaite, John. 1989. “Criminological Theory and organizational crime.” Justice Quarterly

6:333-358.

Braithewaite, John. 1989. Crime, Shame and Reintegration. New York: Cambridge University

Press.

Bridges, George S. and Gina Beretta. 1994. “Gender, race, and social control: toward an

understanding of sex disparities in imprisonment.” Pp. 158-175 in Inequality, Crime and Social

Control. G.S. Bridges and M. Myers (Eds). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Chambliss, William J. 1964. “The law of vagrancy.” Pp. 287-293 in Classics of Criminology.

Hindelang, Michael J. 1970. “The commitment of delinquents to their misdeeds: do

delinquents drift?” Social Problems 17:502-509.

Hindelang, Michael J. 1974. “Moral evaluation of illegal behaviors” Social Problems 21:370-

385.

Hindelang, Michael J. 1978. “Race and involvement in common law personal crimes.”

American Sociological Review 43:93-109.

Hindelang, Michael J., et al. 1979. “Correlates of delinquency: the illusion of discrepancy

between self-report and official measures.” American Sociological Review 44:995-1014.

Hirschi, Travis. 1972. “A control theory of delinquency.” Pp. 251-258 in Classics of


Hirschi, Travis. 1969. Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lasley, James R. 1988. “Toward a control theory of white-collar offending.” Journal of

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Quantitative Criminology 4:347-359.

Lauderdale, Pat. 1976. “Deviance and moral boundaries.” American Sociological Review

41:660-676.

Matza, David. 1964. Delinquency and Drift. New York: Wiley.

Nye, F. Ivan. 1958. Family Relationships and Delinquent Behavior. Pp.1-9. John Wiley and

Sons, New York.

Rafter, Nicole Hahn. 1985. “Partial justice: women, prisons, and social control.” Pp. 69-83 in

Correctional Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings. Marquart and Sorensen (Eds).

1997. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.

Reckless, Walter. 1962. “A non-causal explanation: containment theory.” Excerpta

Criminologica 2:131-134.

Steffensmeier, Darrell. 1989. “On the causes of ‘white-collar’ crime: an assessment of Hirschi

and Gottfredson’s claims.” Criminology 27:345-371.

Self Control

Akers, Ronald L. 1991. “Self-control as a general theory of crime.” Journal of Quantitative


Benson, Michael L. and Elizabeth Moore. 1992. “Are white-collar and common offenders the

same? An empirical and theoretical critique of a recently proposed general theory of crime.”

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29:251-272.

Cochran, John, Peter Wood, Christine Sellers, Wendy Wilkerson, and Mitchell Chamlin. 1998.

“Academic Dishonesty and Low Self-Control: An Empirical Test of a General Theory of

Crime.” Deviant Behavior 19:227-255.

Gottfredson, Michael and Travis Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford

University Press.

Grasmick, Harold G., Charles R. Tittle, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., and Bruce J. Arneklev. 1993.

“Testing the core empirical implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime.”

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:5-29.

Hirschi, Travis and Michael Gottfredson. 1993. “Commentary: testing the general theory of

crime.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:47-54.

Longshore, Douglas, Susan Turner, and Judith Stein. 1996. “Self-Control in a Criminal Sample:

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An Examination of Construct Validity.” Criminology 34:209-228.

Gregory D. Morris, Peter B. Wood, and R. Gregory Dunaway. 2007. “Culture or Low Self-

Control?: Explaining the Mortality-Linked Behaviors of Native American Youth.” Sociological

Inquiry 77:194-218.

Gregory D. Morris, Peter B. Wood, and R. Gregory Dunaway. 2006. “Self-Control and Native

American Substance Use: Testing the Cultural Invariance Thesis.” Crime and Delinquency

52:572-598.

Piquero, Alex and Andre Rosay. 1998. “The Reliability and Validity of Grasmick et al’s Self-

Control Scale: A Comment on Longshore et al.” Criminology 36:157-174.

Pratt, Travis and Francis Cullen. 2000. “The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s

General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis.” Criminology 38:931-964.

Tittle, Charles R., David A. Ward, and Harold G. Grasmick. 2003. “Gender, Age, and

Crime/Deviance: A Challenge to Self-Control Theory.” Journal of Research in Crime and

Delinquency 40:426-453

Tittle, Charles R., David A. Ward, and Harold G. Grasmick. 2004. Self-Control and

Crime/Deviance: Cognitive vs. Behavioral Measures. Journal of Quantitative Criminology

19:333-365.

Vazsonyi, Alexander T. and Jennifer M. Crosswhite. 2004. “A Test of Gottfredson and

Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime in African-American Adolescents.” Journal of Research in

Crime and Delinquency 41:407-432.

Vazsonyi, Alexander T., Janice E. Clifford Wittekin, Lara M. Belliston, and Timothy D. Van

Loh. 2005. “Extending the General Theory of Crime to ‘The East’: Low Self-Control in

Japanese Late Adolescents.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20:189-216.

Wright, John Paul and Kevin M. Beaver. 2005. “Do Parents Matter in Creating Self-Control in

Their Children?: A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hischi’s Theory of Low Self-

Control.” Criminology 43:1169-1202.

Control as a Dependent Variable (Donald Black’s work)

Black, Donald. 1984. “Social control as a dependent variable” in Donald Black (ed.) Toward a

General Theory of Social Control. Volume II. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Black, Donald. 1984. “Crime as social control” in Donald Black (ed.) Toward a General

Theory of Social Control. Volume II. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

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Control Balance Theory

Baron, Stephen W. and David R. Forde. 2007. “Street Youth Crime: A Test of Control Balance

Theory.” Justice Quarterly 24:335-355.

Braithewaite, John. 1997. “Charles Tittle’s control balance and criminological theory.”

Theoretical Criminology 1:77-97.

Hickman, Matthew and Alex Piquero. 2001. “Exploring the Relationships Between Gender,

Control Ratios, and Deviance.” Deviant Behavior 22:323-351.

Makkai, Toni and John Braithewaite. 1994. “Reintegrative shaming and compliance with

regulatory standards.” Criminology 32:361-386.

Piquero, Alex and Matthew Hickman. 1999. “An Empirical Test of Tittle’s Control Balance

Theory.” Criminology 37:319-340.

Tittle, Charles R. 1995. Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance. Boulder,

CO: Westview Press.

Tittle, Charles R. 2004. “Refining Control Balance Theory.” Theoretical Criminology 8:395-

428.

Power Control Theory

Blackwell, Brenda Simms. 2000. “Perceived Sanction Threats, Sex, and Crime: A Test and

Elaboration of Power-Control Theory.” Criminology 38:438-488.

Hagan, John, A.R. Gollis, and John Simpson. 1985. “The Class Structure of Gender and

Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior.” American

Journal of Sociology 90:1151-1178.

Hagan, John, John Simpson, and A.R. Gillis. 1987. “Class in the Household: A Power-Control

Theory of Gender and Delinquency.” American Journal of Sociology 92:788-816.

Hagan, John, A.R. Gillis, and John Simpson. 1990. “Clarifying and Extending Power-Control

Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 95:1024-1037.

Jensen, Gary F. and Ken Thompson. 1990. “What’s class got to do with it? A further

examination of power-control theory.” American Journal of Sociology 95:1009-1023.

Grasmick, Harold, John Hagan, Brenda Sims Blackwell, and Bruce J. Arneklev. 1996. Risk

Preferences and Patriarchy: Extending Power-Control Theory.” Social Forces 75:177-199.

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McCarthy, Bill, John Hagan, and Todd Woodward. 1999. “In the Company of Women:

Structure and Agency in a Revised Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency.”


Uggen, Christopher. 2000. “Class, Gender, and Arrest: An Intergenerational Analysis of

Workplace Power and Control.” Criminology 38:835-862.

Theories of Offender Decision-Making: Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Routine

Activities

Bentham, Jeremy. “Punishment and deterrence.” Pp. 62-65 in Principled Sentencing by Von

Hirsch and Ashworth (Eds.). 1992. Northeastern University Press.

Beyleveld, Deryck. “Deterrence research and deterrence policies.” Pp. 77-92 in Principled

Sentencing by Von Hirsch and Ashworth (Eds.). 1992. Northeastern University Press.

Bouffard, Jeffrey. 2002. “Methodological and Theoretical Implications of Using Subject-

Generated Consequences in Tests of Rational Choice Theory.” Justice Quarterly 19:747-769.

Brown, Stephen and Finn-Aage Esbensen. 1984. “Thoughts on Deterrence: Evolution of a

Theoretical Perspective.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative


John Cochran, Mitchell Chamlin, Peter Wood, and Christine Sellers. 1999. “Shame,

Embarrassment, and Formal Sanction Threats: Extending the Deterrence/Rational Choice Model

to Academic Dishonesty.” Sociological Inquiry 69:91-105.

Cohen, Lawrence and Marcus Felson. 1979. “Social change and Crime: A Routine Activity

Approach.” American Sociological Review 44:588-608.

Cornish, Derek and Ronald Clarke. 1987. “Understanding Criminal Displacement: An

Application of Rational Choice Theory.” Criminology 25:933-947.

Dunford, Frank, David Huizinga, and Delbert Elliot. 1990. “The role of arrest in domestic

assault.” Criminology 28:183-206.

Felson, Marcus. 1996. “Routine Activity Approach” and Situational crime prevention.” Pp. 20-

25 in Cordella & Siegel (Eds.) Readings in Contemporary Criminological Theory. Boston.

Northeastern University Press.

Grasmick, Harold and Robert Bursik, Jr. 1990. “Conscience, significant others, and rational

choice: extending the deterrence model.” Law and Society Review 24:837-861.

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Klepper, Steven and Daniel Nagin. 1989. “The deterrence effect of perceived certainty and

severity of punishment revisited.” Criminology 27:721-746.

Nagin, Daniel S. and Raymond Paternoster. 1994. “Personal capital and social control: the

deterrence implications of a theory of individual differences in criminal offending.”

Criminology 32(4):581-601.

Nagin, Daniel S. and Raymond Paternoster. 1991. “The preventive effects of the perceived risk

of arrest: testing the expanded conception of deterrence.” Criminology 29(4):561-583.

Newman, Graeme. “Will corporal punishment deter crime?” Pp. 156-167 in Just and Painful:

A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals by Newman. 1995. Harrow and Heston.

Paternoster, Raymond and Alex Piquero. 1995. “Reconceptualizing deterrence: an empirical

test of personal and vicarious experiences.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

32(3):251-286.

Paternoster, R., et al. 1983. “Perceived risk and social control.” Law and Society Review

17:457-480.

Paternoster, R., et al. 1982. “Perceived risk and deterrence.” Journal of Criminal Law and


Piliavin, Irving, Craig Thornton, Rosemary Gartner and Ross L. Matsueda. 1986. “Crime,

deterrence, and rational choice.” American Sociological Review 51:101-119.

Piquero, Alex R. and Greg Pogarsky. 2002. Beyond Stafford and Warr’s Reconceptualization of

Deterrence: Personal and Vicarious Experiences, Impulsivity, and Offending Behavior. Journal

of Research in Crime and Delinquency 39:153-186.

Pogarsky, Greg and Alex R. Piquero. 2003. Can Punishment Encourage Offending?:

Investigating the “Resetting” Effect. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:95-120.

Pogarsky, Greg. 2002. “Identifying ‘Deterrable’ Offenders: Implications for Research on

Deterrence.” Justice Quarterly 19:431-452.

Sherman, Larry and Richard Berk. 1984. “The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic

assault.” American Sociological Review 49:261-272.

Sherman, Lawrence W. 1993. Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance: A Theory of the Criminal

sanction. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:445-473.

Stafford, Mark and Mark Warr. 1993. “A Reconceptualization of General and Specific

Deterrence.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:123-135.

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Williams, Kirk and Richard Hawkins. 1989. “The meaning of arrest for wife assault.”


Williams, Kirk and Richard Hawkins. 1986. “ Perceptual research on general deterrence: a

critical review.” Law and Society Review 20:545-572.

Wood, Peter B. 2007. “Exploring the Positive Punishment Effect Among Incarcerated Adult

Offenders.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 31(2): Forthcoming.

Deterrence and Capital Punishment

Bowers, William and Glenn Pierce. 1980. “Deterrence or brutalization: what is the effect of

executions?” Crime and Delinquency 26:453-484.

Cochran, John, Mitchell Chamlin, and Mark Seth. 1994. “Deterrence or Brutalization?: An

Assessment of Oklahoma’s Return to Capital Punishment.” Criminology 32:107-34.

Ehrlich, Isaac. 1975. “The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and

Death.” American Economic Review 65:397-417.

Keve, Paul. “The costliest punishment: a corrections administrator contemplates the death

penalty.” Pp. 614-622 in The Dilemmas of Corrections: Contemporary Readings (3rd Ed.) by

Kenneth Haas and Geoffrey Alpert (Eds.). 1995. Waveland Press.

McFarland, S.G. 1983. “Is capital punishment a short-term deterrent to homicide?” Journal of

Criminal Law and Criminology 74:1014-1032.

Phillips, David. 1980. “The deterrent effect of capital punishment: new evidence on an old

controversy.” American Journal of Sociology 86:139-148.

Sorenson, Jon, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart. 1999. “Capital

Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas.” Crime

and Delinquency 45:481-493.

Stack, Steven. 1987. “Publicized executions and homicide, 1950-1980.” American Sociological

Review 52:532-540.

Life Course Criminology

Pettit, Becky and Bruce Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and

Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69:151-169.

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Uggen, Christopher. 2000. “Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A

Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism.” American Sociological Review 65:529-

546.

Huebner, Beth. 2005. “The Effect of Incarceration on Marriage and Work Over the Life

Course.” Justice Quarterly 22:281-303.

Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1993. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning

Points Through Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Warr, Mark. 1998. “Life-Course Transitions and Desistence From Crime.” Criminology

36:183-216.

Piquero, Alex and Paul Mazerolle. 2001. Life-Course Criminology: Contemporary and Classic

Readings. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Belmont, CA.

Conflict/ Marxist

Braithewaite, John. 1981. “White collar crime.” Annual Review of Sociology 11:1-25.

Braithewaite, John. 1988. “White collar crime, competition, and capitalism: comment on

Coleman.” American Journal of Sociology 94:627-632.

Coleman, James William. 1988. “Competition and the structure of industrial society: reply to

Braithewaite.” American Journal of Sociology 94:632-636.

Coleman, James William. 1994. The Criminal Elite. 3rd edition. New York: Saint Martin’s

Press.


University Press.

Hagan, John. 1989. Structural Criminology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Marx, Karl. 1844. “Class conflict and law.” Pp. 89-95 in Classics of Criminology. 2nd edition.

Edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Quinney, Richard. 19 “The social reality of crime.”

Quinney, Richard. 1977. Class, State, and Crime. New York: Longman Publishing.

Reiman, Jeffery. 1997. The Rich Get Poorer and the Poor Get Prison: Class, Ideology, and

Criminal Justice. 5th edition. New York: Wiley.

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Sellin, Thorsten. 1938. Culture Conflict and Crime. New York: Social Science Research

Council.

Shapiro, Susan P. 1990. “Collaring the crime, not the criminal: reconsidering the concept of

white collar crime.” American Sociological Review 55:346-365.

Spitzer, Steven. 1975. “Toward a Marxian theory of deviance.” Social Problems 22:638-651.

Spitzer, Steven. 1983. “Marxist perspectives in the sociology of law.” Annual Review of

Sociology 9:103-124.

Turk, Austin T. 1966. “Conflict and criminality.” American Sociological Review 31:338-352.

Turk, Austin T. 1979. “Analyzing official deviance: for non-partisan conflict analyses in

criminology.” Criminology 16:459-476.

Vold, George B. and Thomas J. Bernard. 1986. Theoretical Criminology. 3rd edition. New

York: Oxford University Press.

Labeling

Becker, Howard S. 1963. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York:

Macmillan.

Becker, Howard S. 1963. “Deviance as a master status.” Pp. 226-227 in Farrell & Swigert.

Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. 1980. “The European witchcraze of the 14th and 17th centuries: a

sociologist’s perspective.” American Journal of Sociology 86:1-31.

Dotter, Daniel L. and Julian B. Roebuck. 1988. “The labeling approach re-examined:

interactionism and the components of deviance.” Deviant Behavior 9:19-32.

Garfinkel, Harold. 1956. “Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies.” American

Journal of Sociology 61:420-424.

Goffman, Erving. 1963. “Stigma and social identity.” Pp. 228-231 in Farrell & Swigert.

Goffman, Erving. “The moral career of the mental patient.” Pp. 390-407 in Farrell & Swigert

Goode, Erich. 1975. “On behalf of labeling theory.” Social Problems 22:570-583.

Gove, Walter R. 1980. The Labeling of Deviance: Evaluation of a Perspective. 2nd edition.

Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

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Lemert, Edwin. 1951. “Primary and secondary deviation.” Pp. 261-263 in Classics of

Criminology.

Lemert, Edwin. 1951. “Secondary deviation and role conceptions.” Pp. 223-225 in Farrell &

Swigert.

Matsueda, Ross L. 1992. “Reflected appraisals, parental labeling, and delinquency: specifying a

symbolic interactionist theory.” American Journal of Sociology 97:1577-1611.

Paternoster, Raymond and Lee Ann Iovanni. 1989. “The labeling perspective and delinquency:

an elaboration of the theory and assessment of the evidence.” Justice Quarterly 6:379-394.

Rosenhan, D. L. “Being sane in insane places.” Pp. 179-185 in Farrell & Swigert

Scheff, Thomas J. 1984. Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory. 2nd edition. New York:

Aldine Gruyter.

Tannenbaum, Frank. 1938. “The dramatization of evil.” Pp. 259-260 in Classics of

Criminology.

Social Learning Theory, Neutralizations, Differential Association

Akers, Ronald L. 1996. “Is differential association/ social learning cultural deviance theory?”


Akers, Ronald L., et al. 1979. “Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of a general

theory.” American Sociological Review 44:636-655.

Bandura, Albert. 1977. Social Learning Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Becker, Howard S. 1967. “History, culture, and subjective experience: an exploration of the

social bases of drug-induced experiences.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 8:163-176.

Becker, Howard S. 1953. “Becoming a marijuana user.” American Journal of Sociology

59:235-242.

Burgess, Robert L. and Ronald L. Akers (1966). “Differential association-reinforcement theory

of criminal behavior.” Pp. 228-235 in Classics of Criminology edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd

edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Clemmer, Donald (1958). “Prisonization.” Pp. 412-416 in Classics of Criminology edited by

Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Glaser, Daniel (1956). “Differential identification.” Pp. 318-320 in Farrell & Swigert.

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Goffman, Erving. 1975. “Characteristics of total institutions.” Pp. 409-418 in Deviance, edited

by Simon Dintiz, et al. New York: Oxford University Press.

Matsueda, Ross L. 1982. “Testing control theory and differential association.” American

Sociological Review 47:489-504.

Matsueda, Ross L. 1988. “The current state of differential association theory.” Crime and

Delinquency 34:277-306.

May, David C. 2003. “Nonsocial Reinforcement and Violence: Can Juvenile Justice Policies be

Effective Against Intrinsic Gratification Received from Violent Activity Among Youth?”

Journal for Juvenile Justice and Detention Services 18(1), 1-18.

Miller, Walter B. 1958. “Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency.”

Journal of Social Issues 14:5-19.

Shaw, Clifford R. and Henry D. McKay (1942). “Differential systems of values.” Pp. 193-200

in Classics of Criminology edited by Joseph E. Jacoby. 2nd edition. 1994. Waveland Press, Inc.

Sutherland, Edwin and Donald Cressey. 1978. Principles of Criminology 10th edition.

Philadelphia: Lippincott.

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