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Title

New directions in criminological theory / edited by Freda Adler, William S. Laufer.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Adler, Freda
• Laufer, William S.

Description

vii, 406 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. The future of labeling theory: foundations and promises -- 2. A proposed resolution of key issues in the political sociology of law -- 3. Contrasting crime general and crime specific theory: The case of hot spots of crime -- 4. Strategy, structure, and corporate crime: the historical context of anticompetitive behavior -- 5. Employee theft: an examination of Gerald Mars and explaination based on equity theory -- 6. Alcohol and theories of homicide -- 7. The empirical status and Hirschi's Control Theory -- 8. The ocial control of spouse assault -- 9. Theoretical formalization, a necessity: The example of Hirchi's Bonding theory -- 10. Control theory and punishment: an analysis of control theory as a penal philosophy -- 11. Power-control verses social-control theories of common delinquency: a comparitive analysis -- Comments: The power of control insociologica theories of delinquency.

Series Statement

Advances in criminological theory

Uniform Title

Advances in criminological theory v. 4.

Subject

Criminology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The future of labeling theory : foundations and promises / Charles F. Wellford & Ruth A. Triplett -- A proposed resolution of key issues in the political sociology of law / Austin T. Turk -- Contrasting crime general and crime specific theory : the case of hot spots of crime / David Weisburd, Lisa Maher & Lawrence Sherman -- Strategy, structure, and corporate crime : the historical context of anticompetitive behavior / Sally S. Simpson -- Employee theft : an examination of Gerald Mars and an explanation based on equity theory / Edward W. Sieh -- Alcohol and theories of homicide / Robert Nash Parker -- The empirical status of Hirschi's control theory / Kimberly L. Kempf -- The social control of spouse assault / Jeffrey Fagan -- Theoretical formalization, a necessity : the example of Hirschi's bonding theory / Marc Le Banc & Aaron Caplan -- Control theory and punishment : an analysis of control theory as a penal philosophy / Michael J. Lynch, Graeme R. Newman & W. Bryon Groves -- Power-control vs. social-control theories of common delinquency : a comparative analysis / Gary F. Jensen -- Comments : the power of control in sociological theories of delinquency / John Hagan, A.R. Gillis & John Simpson.

ISBN

1560000465

OCLC

27408002

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Harvard Library