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Sociological theory and criminological research views from Europe and the United States
Record details
- ISBN: 0080463061 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780080463063 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780857240545 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0857240544 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780762313228 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0762313226 (hbk.)
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1 online resource (x, 289 p.) - Publisher: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier/JAI, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Bearing of Sociological Theory on Criminological Research -- Sociological Theory and Criminology -- An Overview of the Chapters -- References -- Part I: From Macro to Micro Models in Crime and Delinquency Analysis -- Work and Crime: Can the Missing Link be Understood through Max Weber's Protestant Ethic* -- Work and Crime: Theoretical and Empirical Problems -- Methods -- Obtaining Vocational Skills and Deviance -- Getting Established in the Labor Market -- Effects of Criminal Sanctioning on the Work Life -- Learning from Max Weber -- Notes -- References -- Truants and the Family: An Empirical Study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence -- Introduction -- Anomie Theory -- Data and Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures -- Introduction -- The Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures Paradigm -- (MIS)Representations of the Mertonian Paradigm -- The Centrality of Opportunity Structures -- Conclusion -- References -- Criminological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead -- Key Issues in the Sociological Understanding of Crime -- Mead's Theory of Social Control -- Identities and Crime -- Human Agency in Criminological Theory -- Labeling, Deviance Amplification, and Desistance -- Crime in the Life Course -- Methodological Issues and Directions for Research -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency -- Gender Definitions Under Patriarchy -- Gender Definitions Across Social Contexts -- Social Psychological Dimensions of Gender Socialization and Delinquency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Commentary on Part I: Theory and Research in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance -- Introductory and General Comments -- Comments on Schumann's ''Work and Crime: Can the missing link be understood through Max Weber's Protestant Ethic?'' -- Comments on Dunkake's ''Truants and the Family: An Empirical study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence'' -- Comments on Marwah and Deflem's ''Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures'' -- Comments on Matsueda's ''Criminological Implications of the thought of George Herbert Mead'' -- Comments on Heimer, Decoster, and Ünal's ''Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency'' -- Part II: Crime and Criminal Justice in Socio-Historical Contexts -- Identity and Intellectual Work: Biography, Theory and Research on Law Enforcement -- Biography and Intellectual Work -- Formal and Informal Socialisation to the Police Occupation -- Policing and Systems Theory -- Being told by the Story -- References -- Sociological Theory in the Study of Sentencing: Lighthouse for a Traveler between Continents -- Introduction: On Airplanes and Theoretical Concepts -- Sentencing Guidelines: What has Max Weber got to do with them? -- Using Weber's Concepts in Empirical Research: Limits of Determinate Sentencing Schemes -- Conclusions: On the Control of Discretion and the use of Sociological Theory in. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Crime -- Sociological aspects Crime & criminology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology Crime -- Sociological aspects |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
