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Includes essays that show how radical and Marxist criminology has established itself as an influential critique since it emerged in the late 1960s. This title draws attention to the way in which structural forces shape and influence both individual and institutional (for example, governmental) behavior.

Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individuals, particularly the efforts of individuals to achieve monetary success. This title presents some of the leading selections on these theories.

Provides some of the most influential works in social ecology and environmental criminology. This title encompasses some of the major journal articles from the 1980s and 1990s in neighborhoods and crime, and then addresses some of the quintessential works in environmental criminology.

Presents the historical, theoretical, methodological, and applied developments within affirmative postmodern and post-structural criminology, which includes the evolution of thought that embraces the 'linguistic turn' in crime, law justice, and social change. This title also includes previously-published articles authored by key thinkers.

Reveals the historical development of social learning theory, from its origins in differential association theory, through the role played by psychological behaviorism, to contemporary social learning theory and its further incorporation of social structure as the context within which criminal behavior is learned.

Examines the connection between genetics and crime, evolutionary psychology and crime, and neuroscience and crime. This title is suitable for those who are interested in understanding the causes of crime from a biosocial criminological perspective.

Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. This title highlights dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques.

Focuses on the similarities and differences among the major contributors to the early developmental stage of social control theory. This title deals with the central importance of parents, peers, and schools in the creation of informal control mechanisms and their link to crime and delinquency.

Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. This title features articles on: opportunity theories of crime; routine activity theory; and, the bounded rational choice perspective.

A collection that re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. It includes works that illustrate that the gender is a key organizing principle of social life. It exemplifies the feminist concern for thinking consciously about how and why we do our research with the crucial goal of producing knowledge.

The developmental and life-course perspective in criminology came to prominence during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s a number of theories were developed to explain offending behavior over the life-course. This volume provides an informative overview of the developmental and life-course perspective in criminology.

A volume that examines: the classical roots of constructionist theory in the work of Alfred Schutz and popularized by Berger and Luckmann; its applications to the sociology of deviance though the works of Becker and Goffman; and the deviations into the methodology made by Garfinkel as well as reflections on its standing in criminological theory.