The Third Edition offers sixty-five essential selections—seventeen of which are new to this edition and include such topics as environmental criminology, criminal careers, general strain theory, self-control theory, feminist theory, women’s prison culture, and the effectiveness of correctional treatment. This expanded, balanced collection of scholarly works in their original form provides easy and affordable access to multiple perspectives.

“If students read only about and not in criminology, their experience is but secondhand, and their conclusions are determined by textbook authors,” says Joseph Jacoby in the preface to this edition of his well-known collection, Classics of Criminology. By reading scholarly works in their original form, readers can share in the discovery and unfolding of powerful ideas in each author’s own words. Classics of Criminology is a compilation of writings produced over the last 240 years. These writings represent the most influential approaches to describing and explaining crime and the social responses to crime. The organization of the collection enables readers to follow the development and application of key ideas from one major author to the next.

The Third Edition offers sixty-five essential selections—seventeen of which are new to this edition and include such topics as environmental criminology, criminal careers, general strain theory, self-control theory, feminist theory, women’s prison culture, and the effectiveness of correctional treatment. This expanded, balanced collection of scholarly works in their original form provides easy and affordable access to multiple perspectives.

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Preface

Section I The Classic Descriptions of Crime

1.What Is a Gang?

 -- Frederick M.Thrasher

2.The Professional Thief

 -- Edwin H.Sutherland

3.White-Collar Criminality

 -- Edwin H.Sutherland

4.Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas

 -- Clifford R.Shaw and Henry D.McKay

5.The Criminal and His Victim

 -- Hans von Hentig

6.Victim-Precipitated Criminal Homicide

 -- Marvin E.Wolfgang

7.Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery

 -- National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

8.Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

 -- Marvin E.Wolfgang, Thorsten Sellin, and Robert Figlio

9.Social Change and Crime: A Routine Activity Approach

 -- Lawrence E.Cohen and Marcus Felson

10.Environmental Criminology

 -- Paul J.Brantingham and Patricia L.Brantingham

11.Characterizing Criminal Careers

 -- Alfred Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen

12.Crime and Deviance over the Life Course:

 The Salience of Adult Social Bonds

 -- Robert J.Sampson and John H.Laub

13.Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil

 -- Jack Katz

Section II Theories of Causation of Crime

14.An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

 -- Jeremy Bentham

15.Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy

 -- Ronald V.Clarke and Derek B.Cornish

16.The Normal and the Pathological

 -- Emile Durkheim

17.Class Conflict and Law

 -- Karl Marx

18.Class, State, and Crime

 -- Richard Quinney

19.Criminal Man

 -- Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

20.The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, and Heredity

 -- Richard Dugdale

21.Feeble-mindedness

 -- H.H.Goddard

22.The Individual Delinquent

 -- William Healy

23.The American Criminal

 -- Ernest A.Hooton

24.Criminology as an Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science

 -- C.R.Jeffery

25.Crime and Human Nature

 -- James Q.Wilson and Richard J.Herrnstein

26.Suicide

 -- Emile Durkheim

27.Social Structure and Anomie

 -- Robert K.Merton

28.Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency

 -- Robert Agnew

29.Culture Conflict and Crime

 -- Thorsten Sellin

30.Differential Systems of Values

 -- Clifford R.Shaw and Henry D.McKay

31.The Content of the Delinquent Subculture

 -- Albert K.Cohen

32.Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency

 -- Walter B.Miller

33, Techniques of Neutralization

 -- Gresham M.Sykes and David Matza

34.Differential Association

 Edwin H.Sutherland

35.A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior

 -- Robert L.Burgess and Ronald L.Akers

36.Delinquency and Opportunity

 -- Richard A.Cloward and Lloyd E.Ohlin

37.Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency

 -- Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck

38.A Control Theory of Delinquency

 -- Travis Hirschi

39.A General Theory of Crime

 Michael R.Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi

40.The Dramatization of Evil

 -- Frank Tannenbaum

41.Primary and Secondary Deviation

 -- Edwin Lemert

42.Outsiders

 Howard S.Becker

43.The Etiology of Female Crime: A Review of the Literature

 -- Dorie Klein

44.Girls' Crime and Woman's Place:

 Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency

 -- Meda Chesney-Lind

Section III The Social Response to Crime

45.Of Crimes and Punishments

 -- Cesare Beccaria

46.The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society

 -- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration o f Justice

47.Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments

 --Andrew von Hirsch

48.Punishment and Social Structure

 -- Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer

49.The Law of Vagrancy

 -- William J.Chambliss

50.Two Models of the Criminal Process

 -- Herbert L.Packer

51.Violence and the Police

 -- William A.Westley

52.A Sketch of the Policeman's "Working Personality"

 -- Jerome H.Skolnick

53.Police Control of Juveniles

 -- Donald J.Black and Albert J.Reiss, Jr.

54.The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment

 -- George L.Kelling, Tony Pate,

 Duane Dieckman, and Charles E.Brown

55.Florence Nightingale in Pursuit of Willie Sutton: A Theory of the Police

 -- Egon Bittner

56.Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety

 -- James Q.Wilson and George L.Kelling

57.The Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault

 -- Lawrence W.Sherman and Richard A.Berk

58.The American Reformatory Prison System

 -- Zebulon Reed Brockway

59.Discipline and Punish

 -- Michel Foucault

60.Prisonization

 -- Donald Clemmer

61.The Pains of Imprisonment

 -- Gresham M.Sykes

62.The Inmate Social System

 -- Gresham M.Sykes and Sheldon L.Messinger,

63.Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison

 -- Rose Giallombardo

64.Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison

 -- Craig Haney, Curtis Banks, and Philip Zimbardo

65.What Works?---Questions and Answers about Prison Reform

 -- Robert Martinson