Research Catalog

Title

Understanding crime : current theory and research / edited by Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson.

Publication

Beverly Hills : Published in cooperation with the American Society of Criminology [by] Sage Publications, c1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• American Society of Criminology
• Gottfredson, Michael R.
• Hirschi, Travis

Description

144 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sage research progress series in criminology ; v. 18

Uniform Title

Sage research progress series in criminology v. 18.

Subject

• Crime
• Criminology

Note

• "Papers presented at the 1979 meetings of the American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the Sutherland tradition in criminology / Travis Hirschi, Michael Gottfredson -- Part I: The multiple factor approach -- The broken home and delinquent behavior: an alternative interpretation of contradictory findings / Karen Wilkinson -- Rediscovering moral communities: church membership and crime / Rodney Stark, Daniel P. Doyle, Lori Kent -- The defensibility of defensible space: a critical review and a synthetic framework for future research / Ralph B. Taylor, Stephen D. Gottfredson, Sidney Brower -- Children who steal / G.R. Patterson -- Part II: Alternatives and mixed explanations -- Family violence: implications from evolutionary biology / Robert L. Burgess -- Aggression, attachment behavior, and crimes or violence / A.R. Mawson -- Group home treatment research: social learning and social control perspectives / Curtis J. Braukmann, Kathryn A. Kirigin, Montrose M. Wolf -- Juvenile delinquency: behavior restraint or behavior facilitation? / Rand Conger.

ISBN

• 0803915179
• 0803915187 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^80019376^

OCLC

6581416

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library