Overview

This volume presents recent theoretical arguments and empirical research on the relationship between crime and the structure of communities and whole societies. Focusing on the ’institutional-anomie’ perspective and allied crime theories, the selections examine the impact on crime of the family, education, community organizations and social welfare institutions. An important theme of the volume is that vital social insitutions can cushion the effects of poverty and inequality on crime rates.

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Author:   Richard Rosenfeld ,  Professor Gerald Mars ,  Professor David Nelken
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.088kg
ISBN:  

9780754625018

ISBN 10:   075462501
Pages:   568
Publication Date:   28 May 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Theoretical Considerations: 'Institutionalizing' criminological theory, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; Anomie, social change and crime: a theoretical examination of institutional-anomie theory, Jon Gunnar Bernburg; Crime punishment and the American dream: toward a Marxist integration, Barbara Sims; Reflections on crime and criminology at the millennium, Elliott Currie; Social support as an organizing concept for criminology, Francis T. Cullen. Cross-National Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide: a cross-national application of institutional-anomie theory, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; Inequality, welfare state and homicide: further support for the institutional-anomie theory, Jukka Savolainen; Social support, inequality and homicide: a cross-national test of an integrated theoretical model, Travis C. Pratt and Timothy W. Godsey; Cross-national differences in managers' willingness to justify ethically suspect behaviors: a test of institutional-anomie theory, John B. Cullen, K Praveen Parboteeah and Martin Hoegl. Based Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Assessing Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional-anomie theory: a partial test, Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran); On testing institutional-anomie theory with varying specifications, Alex Piquero and Nicole Leeper Piquero; Social institutions and violence: a sub-national test of institutional-anomie theory, Michael O. Maume and Matthew R. Lee; Decommodification and homicide rates in the 20th-century United States, Candice Batton and Gary Jensen; Social altruism and crime, Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K Cochran. Crime and Institutional Dynamics at the Local Level: Local politics and violent crime in US cities, Thomas D. Stucky; Disadvantage and neighborhood violent crime: do local institutions matter?, Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo and Mark A. Harris; The role of public social control in urban neighborhoods: a multi-level analysis of victimization risk, Maria B. Velez; Industrial shift, polarized labor markets and urban violence: modeling the dynamics between the economic transformation and disaggregated homicide, Karen Parker. Implications for Punishment: The political economy of imprisonment in affluent Western democracies, 1960-1990, John R. Sutton ; Incarceration, social capital and crime: implications for social disorganization theory, Dina Rose and Todd Clear; Index.

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'This is an extremely valuable collection for anyone interested in exploring in some depth the particular institutional strand within 'sociological criminology' and in gaining an insight into some of the fairly recent thinking and research among a sector of leading US criminologists.' The British Society of Criminology

Author Information

Richard Rosenfeld is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. He has written widely on the social sources of violent crime. Professor Rosenfeld is a member of the US National Academy of Science's Committee on Law and Justice and a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Contributors: Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld, Jon Gunnar Bernburg, Barbara Sims, Elliott Currie, Francis T. Cullen, Jukka Savolainen, Travis C. Pratt, Timothy W. Godsey, John B. Cullen, K. Praveen Parboteeah, Martin Hoegl, Mitchell B. Chamlin, John K. Cochran, Alex Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Michael O. Maume, Matthew R. Lee, Candice Batton, Gary Jensen, John K. Cochran, Thomas D. Stucky, Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, Mark A. Harris, Maria B. Velez, Karen Parker, John R. Sutton, Dina Rose, Todd Clear.

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