READINGS FOR GRADUATE CRIMINOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM The following subdivisions are simply meant to be a heuristic device. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive or exhaustive. Note: Students are responsible for the last 5 years of articles in scholarly journals related to the area including Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, and related papers published in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces and all other top journals. Social Disorganization and the Chicago School Bursik, R.J. 1988. "Social Disorganization theories of crime and delinquency: Problems and Prospects." Criminology 26:519-552. Morenoff, J., R. Sampson and S. Raudenbush. 2001. “Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy, and the spatial dynamics of urban violence.” Criminology 39 (3): 517-559. Park, Robert E. 1915. “The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment. American Journal of Sociology 20: 577-612. Rose, D. and T. Clear. 1998. "Incarceration, social capital and crime: implications for social disorganization theory." Criminology 36:441-479. Sampson, R. 2012. The Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press. Sampson, R., S.W. Raudenbush and F. Earls. 1997."Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy." Science 277: 918-924. Sampson, R., and Groves, W.B. (1989). “Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social- Disorganization Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 94 (4): 774-802. Shaw, Clifford R., and Henry D. McKay. 1942. Juvenile Delinquency in Urban Areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Differential Association and Social Learning Theories Akers, R. L. 1998. Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Burgess, R, and R. Akers. 1966. "A Differential Association Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior." Social Problems 14: 128-47. Kraeger, D. A., K. Rulison, and J. Moody. 2011. "Delinquency and the Structure of Adolescent Peer Groups." Criminology 49: 95-127. 1 Sutherland, E. H. 1945. " ls 'White Collar Crime' Crime ?" American Sociological Review 10(2): 132 -39. Sykes, G. M. and D. Matza. 1957. "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency."American Sociological Review 22: 664-70 Routine Activities and Rational Choice Baccaria, C. 1764 (1985). Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Translated by H. Paolucci. New York: Macmillan. Bentham, J.. 1789 (1962). “An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.” In The Works of Jeremy Bentham. J. Bowring (ed.) New York: Russell and Russell. Clark, R. V. and M. Felson. 1993. Routine Activity and Rational Choice: Advances in Criminology Theory, Vol. 5. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press. Cohen, L. E. and M. Felson. 1979. “Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activities approach.” American Sociological Review 44: 588-608. Felson, M., 2000. Crime and Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Loughran, T.A., Paternoster, R., Chalfin, A. Wilson, T. 2016. “Can rational choice be considered a general theory of crime? Evidence from individual level panel data.” Criminology 54(1): 86-112. Paternoster, Ray. 1987. "The Deterrent Effect of the perceived certainty and severity of punishment." Justice Quarterly 4:173-217. Anomie and Social Strain Agnew, R. 1992. “Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency.” Criminology 30:47-87. Agnew, R. 2001. “Building on the foundation of general strain theory: Specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 38:319-361. Broidy, L.M. 2001 “A test of General Strain Theory.” Criminology 39: (1) 9-36 Cloward, R A. 1959. "Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior." American Sociological Review 24: 164-76. Cohen, A. 1955. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. NY: Free Press. 2 Maume, M. and M. Lee. 2003. “Social Institutions and violence: a sub-national test of institutional anomie theory.” Criminology 41(4): 1137-1172. Merton, R. K. 1938. "Social Structure and Anomie." American Sociological Review 3:672- 82. Messner, S.F. and R. Rosenfeld. 2001. Crime and the American Dream. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Cloward, R. and L. Ohlin. 2011(1960). Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs. NY: Routledge. Control Theories Gottfredson, M. and T. Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. CA: Stanford University Press. Gramsick, H. G., C. R. Tittle, R. J. Bursik, and B.J. Arneklev. 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 Hay, C. 2001. “Parenting, self-control, and delinquency: A test of self-control theory. Criminology 39 (3): 707-736. Hirschi, T. 1969. Causes of Delinquency. University of California Press. Matza, D. 1964. Delinquency and Drift. New York: John Wiley. Miller, W. B. 1958. "Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency." Journal of Social Issues 14: 5-19. Na, C.M. and Paternoster, R. 2012. “Can self-control change substantially over time? Rethinking the relationship between self and social control. Criminology 50(2): 427-462. Pratt, T. and F. Cullen. 2000. "The empirical status of Gottfredson and Hirschi' s general theory of crime: a meta-analysis." Criminology 38 (3): 931-964. Lifecourse, Criminal Careers, and Desistance Bachman, R., E. Kerrison, R. Paternoster, D. O’Connell, and L. Smith. 2015. “Desistance for a long-term drug-involved sample of adult offenders.” Journal of Developmental and Life- Course Criminology 1: 1-23. Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., & Holland, D. D. 2003. “Changes in friendship relations over the life course: Implications for desistance from crime.” Criminology 41(2): 293–328. 3 Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., & Rudolph, J. L. (2002). “Gender, crime, and desistance: Toward a theory of cognitive transformation.” The American Journal of Sociology 107(4): 990–1064. Laub, J., and R. Sampson. 2003. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lyngstad, T. H., and T. Skardhamar 2013. “Changes in criminal offending around the time of marriage.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 50(4), 608–615. Paternoster, R. 2017. “Happenings, Acts, and Actions: Articulating the Meaning and Implications of Human Agency for Criminology. Journal of Development and Life Course Criminology 3: 350-372. Paternoster, R. and Bushway, S. 2009. “Desistance and the “feared self”: Toward an identity theory of criminal desistance.” Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 99(4): 1103-1156. Paternoster, R., R. Bachman, S. Bushway, E. Kerrison, and D. O’Connell. 2015. “Human agency and explanations of criminal desistance: Arguments for a rational choice theory.” Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 1(3): 209-235. Sampson, R., and J. Laub. 1993 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Savage, J. 2009. The Development of Persistent Criminality. Oxford University Press. Uggen, C. 2000. “Work as a turning point in the life course of criminals: A duration model of age, employment, and recidivism.” American Sociological Review, 65(4), 529–547. Labeling and Shaming Theories Braithwaite, J. 1999. “Restorative justice: Assessing optimistic and pessimistic accounts.” Pp. 1-27 in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research. Vol. 25, M.Tonry (ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Braithwaite, J. 1989. Crime, Shame and Reintegration. NY: Cambridge University Press. Chiricos, T, K Barrick, W Bales, and S Bontrager. 2007. " The labeling of convicted felons and its consequences for recidivism." Criminology 45 (3): 547-581 Denver, M., Pickett, J., and Bushway, S. 2017. “The language of stigmatization and the mark of violence: Experimental evidence on the social construction and use of criminal record stigma.” Criminology, 55(3): 664-690. 4 Erickson, K. 1964. "Notes on the Sociology of Deviance." In The Other Side: Perspectives on Deviance, Edited by H. S. Becker. New York: The Free Press. Gove, W. R. 1980. The Labeling of Deviance. CA: Sage. Matza, D. 1969. Becoming Deviant. Prentice Hall. Melossi, D. 1985. "Overcoming the Crisis in Critical Criminology: Toward a Grounded Labeling Theory." Criminology 23 (2): 193-208. Conflict, Radical, Feminist and Other Critical Theoretical Readings Alexander, M. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. NY: The New Press. Burgess-Proctor, A. 2006. “Intersections of Race, Class and Gender and Crime: Future Directions for Feminist Criminology.” Feminist Criminology 1 (1): 27-47. Chambliss, W. J. 2001. Power, Politics, and Crime. Westview Press. Chesney-Lind, M. and R. G. Sheldon. 2004. Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice. 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Miller, S. 1998. Crime Control and Women: Feminist Implications for Criminal Justice Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Simpson, S. S. 1989. "Feminist Theory, Crime, and Justice." Criminology 27: 605-31. Smart, C. 1990. "Feminist Approaches to Criminology: Postmodern Woman meets Atavistic Man." In Feminist Perspectives in Criminology, edited by A. Morris and L. Gelsthorpe, 71-84. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Spitzer, S. 1974. "Towards a Marxian Theory of Deviance." Social Problems 22: 638- 351. Turk, A. 1966. "Conflict and Criminality." American Sociological Review 31: 338-52. Theoretical Integration Agnew, R. 2011. Toward