The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory
Abstract
This book deals with criminological theory, criminology, and criminal justice. It addresses a wide range of topics relevant to criminology, including socioeconomic factors that contribute to crime such as biology, community and inequality, emotions, immigration, social institutions, social learning, social support, parenting, peer networks, street culture, and market economy. It also examines the developmental criminology perspective and the developmental risk factors for crime and delinquency across five key risk domains (individuals, family, peers, schools, and community). Moreover, it reviews criminological research that ascribes criminal behavior to the interaction between individuals and street culture; Cesare Lombroso's views about the causes and correlates of crime as delineated in his book,
Criminal Man
; the state of contemporary gang ethnography; Travis Hirschi's major contributions to the methods of analysis in criminology; the role of gender in delinquency; the link between coercion and crime; the psychology of criminal conduct; violence in drug markets in suburbs and the code of the suburb; the impact of imprisonment on reoffending; green criminology; and why crime levels are extraordinarily high in some places but low or totally absent in most places, and how place management accounts for this disparity. The book also looks at a variety of theories on criminology, including the rational choice theory, the theory of target search, Robert Agnew's general strain theory, the “Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential” theory developed by David Farrington, routine activity theory, and crime-as-choice theory.
Keywords:
crime,
criminological theory,
criminology,
Cesare Lombroso,
imprisonment,
perceptual deterrence theory,
parenting,
market economy,
immigration,
psychology of criminal conduct
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Nov 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199747238
- Published online:
- Dec 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199747238.001.0001
