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If it takes you an hour to read this chapter, by the time you reach the last page, two of your fellow citizens will have been murdered. During that same time, at least 4 Americans will die as a result of unhealthy or unsafe conditions in the workplace! Although these work-related deaths could have been prevented, they are not called murders. Why not? Doesn't a crime by any other name still cause misery and suffering? What's in a name? The fact is that the label “crime” is not used in America to name all or the worst of the actions that cause misery and suffering to Americans. It is primarily reserved for the dangerous actions of the poor. In the March 14, 1976 edition of the Washington Star , a front-page article appeared with the headline: “Mine Is Closed 26 Deaths Late.” The article read in part: Why, the relatives [of the 26 dead miners] ask, did the mine ventilation fail and allow pockets of volatile methane gas to build up in a shaft 2,300 feet below the surface? Why wasn't the mine cleared as soon as supervisors spotted evidence of methane gas near where miners were driving huge machines into…
Table of Contents
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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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