Crime Causation: Sociological Theories

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ANDERSON, ELIJAH. Code of the Street. New York: Norton, 1999.

BANDURA, ALBERT. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1986.

BRAITHWAITE, JOHN. Crime, Shame, and Reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

BURSIK, ROBERT J., JR.; and GRASMICK, HAROLD G. Neighborhoods and Crime. New York: Lexington, 1993.

CHESNEY-LIND, MEDA; and SHELDON, RANDALL G. Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice. Belmont, Calif.: West/Wadsworth, 1998.

CLOWARD, RICHARD; and OHLIN, LLOYD. Delinquency and Opportunity. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1960.

COHEN, ALBERT K. Delinquent Boys. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1955.

COHEN, LAWRENCE E.; and FELSON, MARCUS. "Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activities Approach." American Sociological Review 44 (1979): 588–608.

CORNISH, DEREK B.; and CLARKE, RONALD V. The Reasoning Criminal. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.

ELLIOTT, DELBERT S.; HUIZINGA, DAVID; and AGETON, SUZANNE S. Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1985.

FELSON, MARCUS. Crime and Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 1998.

GOTTFREDSON, MICHAEL; and HIRSCHI, TRAVIS. A General Theory of Crime. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

GREENBERG, DAVID F. "Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society." Contemporary Crises 1 (1977): 189–223.

HAGAN, JOHN. Crime and Disrepute. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 1994.

HIRSCHI, TRAVIS. Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1969.

MATSUEDA, ROSS L. "Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency: Specifying a Symbolic Interactionist Theory." American Journal of Sociology 97 (1992): 1577–1611.

MATZA, DAVID; and SYKES, GRESHAM M. "Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values." American Sociological Review 26 (1961): 712–719.

MERTON, ROBERT K. "Social Structure and Anomie." American Sociological Review 3 (1938): 672–682.

MESSERSCHMIDT, JAMES W. Masculinities and Crime. Lantham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993.

MESSNER, STEVEN F.; and ROSENFELD, RICHARD. Crime and the American Dream. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1997.

PATTERSON, GERALD R.; REID, JOHN B.; and DISHION, THOMAS J. Antisocial Boys. Eugene, Oreg.: Castalia Publishing Co., 1992.

SAMPSON, ROBERT J.; and GROVES, W. BYRON. "Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory." American Journal of Sociology 94 (1989): 774–802.

SAMPSON, ROBERT J.; and LAUB, JOHN H. Crime in the Making. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

SUTHERLAND, EDWIN H.; CRESSEY, DONALD R.; and LUCKENBILL, DAVID F. Principles of Criminology. Dix Hills, N.Y.: General Hall, 1992.

SYKES, GRESHAM; and MATZA, DAVID. "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency." American Journal of Sociology 22 (1957): 664–670.

THORNBERRY, TERENCE P. "Towards an Interactional Theory of Delinquency." Criminology 25 (1987): 863–891.

TITTLE, CHARLES R. Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1995.

VOLD, GEORGE B.; BERNARD, THOMAS J.; and SNIPES, JEFFREY B. Theoretical Criminology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.