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Volume 1: The Meaning of Crime
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Definition
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Jerome Michael | Mortimer Adler
1933
Crime, Law and Social Science
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Paul Tappan
1947
American Sociological Review
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E. Sutherland
1940
American Sociological Review
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Jeffrey Reiman
1984
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
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5. Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights?
Herman Schwendinger | Julia Schwendinger
1970
Issues in Criminology
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6. Social Harm Definitions of Crime
Larry Tifft
1995
The Critical Criminologist
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7. The Prism of Crime: Arguments for an Integrated Definition of Crime
Stuart Henry | Mark Lanier
1998
Justice Quarterly
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8. Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime
Louk Hulsman
1986
Contemporary Crises
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Representation
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9. Bias in the Newspaper Reporting of Crime News
Jason Ditton | James Duffy
1983
British Journal of Criminology
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10. Repetitive Retribution: Media Images and the Cultural Construction of Criminal Justice
Clinton Sanders | Eleanor Lyon
1995
Cultural Criminology
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11. The Construction of Crime News
Yvonne Jewkes
2004
Media and Crime
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Jack Katz
1987
Media, Culture and Society
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13. Mods, Rockers and the Rest: Community Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency
Stanley Cohen
1967
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
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14. The Amplification of Drug use
Jock Young
1973
The Manufacture of News
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15. Rethinking ‘Moral Panic’ for Multi-mediated Social Worlds
A. McRobbie | S. Thornton
1995
The British Journal of Sociology
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16. Moral Panics as Cultural Politics
Stanley Cohen
2002
Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers
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17. Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Post-modernism
Richard Osborne
1995
Crime and the Media
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Social Construction
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18. Outsiders
Howard Becker
1963
Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
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19. The Media's Role in the Definition of Crime
Ray Surette | Charles Otto
2001
What is Crime?
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20. The Criminalization of Conduct
William Chambliss
1981
Law and Deviance
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21. Crime as a Category: Domestic and Globalized1
Laura Nader
2003
Crimes Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime
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Volume 2: The Causes of Crime
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Origins of Criminology: Classicism and Positivism
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Cesare Beccaria
1996
Criminological Perspectives: A Reader
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23. Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime
Adolphe Quetelet
1996
Criminological Perspectives: A Reader
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24. Atavism and Epilepsy in Crime and in Punishment
Cesare Lombroso
1918
Crime: Its Causes and Remedies
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Biological and Psychological Explanations
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25. Antisocial Behaviour: Evolution, Genetics, Neuropsychology, and Psychophysiology
Adrian Raine | Peter Venables
1992
Handbook of Individual Differences: Biological Perspectives
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26. Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children
Avshalom Caspi | Joseph McClay | Terrie Moffitt | Jonathan Mill | Judy Martin | Ian Craig | Alan Taylor | Richie Poulton
2002
Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children
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H. Eysenck
1984
Psychology and Law: Topics from an International Conference
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28. The Concentration of Offending in Families
David Farrington | Geoffrey Barnes | Sandra Lambert
1996
Legal and Criminological Psychology
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Sociological Explanations
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29. Social Structure and Anomie
Robert Merton
1938
American Sociological Review
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30. A Statement of the Theory of Differential Association
Donald Cressey
1964
Delinquency, Crime and Differential Association
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31. Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior
Richard Cloward
1959
American Sociological Review
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32. Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
Robert Agnew
1992
Criminology
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33. Deviant Places: A Theory of the Ecology of Crime
Rodney Stark
1987
Criminology
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Rational Choice and Realist Explanations
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James Wilson
1983
Thinking about Crime
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R. Clarke
1977
Bulletin of the British Psychological Society
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36. Broken Windows
James Wilson | George Kelling
1982
Atlantic Monthly
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37. Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis
Marcus Felson
1987
Criminology
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38. The Emerging British Underclass
Charles Murray
1994
Underclass: The Crisis Deepens
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Jock Young
1992
Rethinking Criminology: The Realist Debate
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40. Crime and Market Society: Lessons from the United States1
Elliott Currie
1998
The New Criminology Revisited
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Volume 3: Radical and Critical Criminologies
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Anti-Positivism: Interactionism and Labelling
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41. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency
Gresham Sykes | David Matza
1957
American Sociological Review
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42. The Concept of Secondary Deviation
Edwin Lemert
1972
Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control
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Howard Becker
1966
Social Problems
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Marxist Criminologies
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44. Criminality and Economic Conditions
Willem Bonger
1996
Criminological Perspectives: A Reader
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45. Toward a Political Economy of Crime
William Chambliss
1975
Theory and Society
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46. Crime and the Development of Capitalism
Richard Quinney
1977
Class, State and Crime: On the Theory and Practice of Criminal Justice
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Critical Criminologies
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I. Taylor | P. Walton | J. Young
1973
The New Criminology
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48. Drifting into a Law and Order Society
Stuart Hall
1980
The Cobden Trust Human Rights Day Lecture
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Thomas Mathiesen
1986
Contemporary Crises
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50. Prison Talk: Interview with Michel Foucault
C. Gordon
1980
Power, Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977
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Feminist Criminologies and Gender Studies
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51. Redressing the Balance: Women and Criminology
C. Smart
1977
Women, Crime and Criminology: A Feminist Critique
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Kathleen Daly | Meda Chesney-Lind
1988
Justice Quarterly
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53. Feminist Approaches to Criminology or Postmodern Woman Meets Atavistic Man
Carol Smart
1990
Feminist Perspectives in Criminology
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Tony Jefferson
1997
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 2nd edn
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Critical Analysis and Critical Research
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55. State Crime, Human Rights, and the Limits of Criminology
Penny Green | Tony Ward
2000
Social Justice
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56. Scrutinizing the Powerful: Crime, Contemporary Political Economy, and Critical Social Research
Steve Tombs | Dave Whyte
2003
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful
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57. Towards a Criminology of War in Europe
Ruth Jamieson
1998
The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe
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58. Criminological Verstehen: Inside the Immediacy of Crime
Jeff Ferrell
1998
Ethnography at the Edge
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