PHD THEORY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST 2019

Agnew, R. (1992). Foundation for a general strain theory of crime & delinquency. Criminology 30(1), 47-87.

Agnew, R. (2006). General strain theory: Current status and directions for further research. In F.T. Cullen, J.P. Wright & K.R. Blevins (Eds.), Taking stock: The status of criminological theory (pp. 101-123). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Akers, R.L. & Jensen, G.F. (2006). The empirical status of social learning theory in Criminology. In F.T. Cullen, J.P. Wright & K.R. Blevins (Eds.), Taking stock: The status of criminological theory (pp. 37-76). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Anderson, E. (1999). Code of the street: Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York, NY: W.W. Norton

Bandura, A. (1973). Aggression: A social learning analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191-215.

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Bernburg, J.G. & Krohn, M.D. (2003). Labeling, life chances, and adult crime: The direct and indirect effects of official intervention in adolescence on crime in early adulthood. Criminology, 41, 1287-1318.

Blumstein, A. & Rosenfeld, R. (1998) Explaining recent trends in U. S. homicide rates. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, LXXXVIII, 1175-1216.

Blumstein, A. (2004). Restoring rationality in punishment policy. In M. Tonry (Ed.), The Future of Imprisonment (pp. 61-80). New York: Oxford University Press.

Blumstein, A., Cohen, J., & Farrington, D. P. (1988). Criminal career research: Its value for criminology. Criminology, 26(1), 1-36.

Bourgois, P. (2003) [1996]. In search of respect: Selling crack in El Barrio (2nd edition). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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Braithwaite, J. (1989). Crime, shame and reintegration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Burgess, R.L., and Akers, R.L. (1966). A differential association reinforcement theory of criminal behavior. Social Problems,14, 128-47.

Cameron, M.O. (1964). The booster and the snitch: department store shoplifting. New York: NY: Free Press.

Clarke, R.V. & Cornish, D.B. (1985). Modeling offenders’ decisions: A framework for research and policy. In M. Tonry and N. Morris (Eds.), Crime and Justice (Vol. 6, pp. 147-85). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Clear, T. (2007). Imprisoning communities: How mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Cohen, A.K. (1955) Delinquent boys: The culture of the gang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cohen, L.E. & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activities approach. American Sociological Review, 44, 588-608.

Colvin, M. and Pauly, J. (1983). A critique of criminology: Toward an integrated structural- Marxist theory of delinquency production. American Journal of Sociology, 89, 513-552.

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Gottfredson, M. & Hirschi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2

Gottfredson, M. R., & Hirschi, T. (1986). The true value of lambda would appear to be zero: An essay on career criminals, criminal careers, selective incapacitation, cohort studies, and related topics. Criminology, 24(2), 213-234.

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Grasmick, H., Tittle, C., Bursik, R. & Arneklev, B. (1993). Testing the core empirical implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 30, 5-29.

Greenberg, D.F. (1999). The weak strength of social control theory. Crime and Delinquency, 45, 66-81.

Greenberg, D. (2014). Studying New York City’s crime decline: Methodological issues. Justice Quarterly, 31, 154-188.

Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Horney, J., Osgood, D.W. & Marshall, I.H. (1995). Criminal careers in the short-term: Intra- individual variability in crime and its relation to local life circumstances. American Sociological Review, 60, 347-367.

Jacobs, B. (2010). Deterrence and deterrability. Criminology, 42(2), 417-441.

Jenkins, P. (2009). Failure to launch: Why do some social issues fail to detonate moral panics? British Journal of Criminology, 49(1), 35-47.

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Lemert, E.M. (1967). Human deviance, social problems and social control (2nd edition). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Lombroso, C. (2006) [1876]. Criminal man. Translated and with an introduction by M. Gibson and N. Hahn Rafter. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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Maruna, S. (2001). Making good: How ex-convicts reform and rebuild their lives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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Matza, D. (1964) Delinquency and drift. New York: Wiley.

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Messner, S.F. & Rosenfeld, R. (2012). Crime and the American Dream (5th Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Messner, S.F., Baller, R.D. and Levenbergen, M.P. (2005). The legacy of lynching and southern homicide. American Sociological Review, 70, 633-55.

Miller, W.B. (1958). Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency. Journal of Social Issues, 14, 5-19.

Moffitt, T.E. (1993). 'Life-course persistent' and 'adolescence-limited' antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.

Morselli, C. & Tremblay, P. (2004). Criminal achievement, offender networks and the benefits of low self-control. Criminology, 42(3), 773-804.

Muhammad, K.G. (2010). The condemnation of blackness: Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Na, C. & Paternoster, R. (2012). Can self-control change substantially over time?: Rethinking the relationship between self and social control. Criminology, 50(2): 427-462.

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Pager, D. (2003). The mark of a criminal record. American Journal of Sociology, 108, 937-975.

Park, R.E. & Burgess, E.W. (1967) [1925]. The city. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Reckless, W.C. (1961). A new theory of delinquency and crime. Federal Probation, 25, 42-46.

Paternoster, R. and Bushway, S. (2009). Desistance and the "feared self": Toward an identity theory of criminal desistance. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 99(4), 1109-1156.

Pettit, B. & Western, B. (2004). Mass imprisonment and the life course: Race and class inequality in U.S. incarceration. American Sociological Review, 69, 151-169.

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Reiss, R. (1951). Delinquency as the failure of social and personal controls. American Sociological Review, 16, 196-207.

Rose, D. & Clear, T.R. (1998). Incarceration, social capital and crime: Implications for the social disorganization theory. Criminology, 36, 441-480.

Sampson, R.J. (2011). Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1997). A life-course theory of cumulative disadvantage and the stability of delinquency. In T. P. Thornberry (Ed.), Developmental theories of crime and delinquency: Advances in criminological theory (Vol. 7, pp. 133-161). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sampson, R. J. & Laub, J. H. (2003). Life-course desisters: Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70. Criminology, 41(3), 555-592.

Sampson, R.J. & Groves, W.B. (1989). Community structure and crime: Testing social disorganization theory. American Journal of Sociology, 94, 774-802.

Savolainen, J. (2000). Inequality, welfare state, and homicide: Further support for the institutional anomie theory. Criminology, 38(4), 1021-1042.

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Thomas, W.I. and Znaniecki, F. (1984) [1918]. The Polish peasant in Europe and America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

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