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Now updated and expanded, this concise survey presents an integrated and comparative evaluation of both individualistic and sociological theories and illuminates the connections, basic assumptions, and concepts associated with major theories of delinquency. In addition to updated discussions of biological and biosocial, psychological, differential association, social disorganization, lower-class-based, anomie, control, radical, and labeling theories, the second edition offers an evaluation of past and present attempts to explain middle-class delinquency and a new discussion of female delinquency that includes power-control theory. Also new is an expanded discussion of theoretical integration that incorporates a full spectrum of delinquency theory.

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• 1 Explanations of Delinquency
• The Problem of Delinquency
• The Issue of Causality
• What Is a Theory?
• Verification of Theories
• The Plan of This Book
• 2 The Classical School--Issues of Choice and Reasoning
• Historical Overview
• Rational Choice Theory
• 3 Biological and Biosocial Explanations
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptions
• Somatotypes and Delinquency
• Inheritance and Delinquency
• Emerging Trends in Biological Explanations of Delinquency
• 4 Psychological Traits
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptiosn
• Intelligence and Delinquency
• The Psychiatric-Psychoanalytic Approach
• General Personality Characteristics
• 5 Social Disorganization and Anomie
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptions
• Social Disorganization
• Anomie and Delinquency: Discontinuities in Society
• 6 Lower-Class-Based Theories of Delinquency
• Historical Overview and Generic Assumptions
• Cohen and the Middle-Class Measuring Rod
• Cloward and Ohlin's Theory of Differential Opportunity Structure
• Miller's Theory of Lower-Class Culture and Delinquency
• 7 Interpersonal and Situational Explanations
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptions
• Differential Association
• Drift and Delinquency
• 8 Control Theories
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptions
• Personal Controls
• Social Controls--The Social Bond
• 9 Labeling Theory
• Historical Overview
• Generic Assumptions
• 10 The Radical Theory of Delinquency
• Historical Overview
• Beyond "Radical" Theory
• 11 Female Delinquency
• Historical Overview
• Basic Biological and Psychological Approaches
• Gender Roles and Delinquency
• Women's Emancipation
• Evaluation
• Power-Control Theory
• Feminist Explanations of Female Delinquency
• 12 Delinquency Theory: An Integrative Approach
• Integrated Theories: Some Considerations and a Proposed Model
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Chapters 2-11 end with a Summary

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Donald J.ShoemakerAssociate Professor, Department of SociologyVirginia Polytechnic Institute.