Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser

ISBN-13: 9780367599201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 436 str.

Francis T. Cullen

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This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her major contribution to the field.

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Introduction: The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser
Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox

Part I. Ruth Rosner Kornhauser: Life and Criminology
1. Ruth Rosner Kornhauser: A Personal and Intellectual History
Anne M. Kornhauser
2. Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's 1963 Manuscript: An Introduction
Brendan D. Dooley
3. Theoretical Issues in the Sociological Study of Juvenile Delinquency
Ruth Rosner Kornhauser
4. Ruth and Me
Travis Hirschi

Part II: Challenging Criminology
5. Social Sources of Delinquency and the Second Coming of Shaw and McKay
Robert J. Bursik, Jr.
6. Social Structure, Culture, and Crime: Assessing Kornhauser's Challenge to Criminology
Ross L. Matsueda
7. Challenging Kornhauser's Critique of Strain Theory
Robert Agnew and Francis T. Cullen

Part III: Inspiring New Theoretical Visions
8. Strength of Control Theory
Chester L. Britt and Barbara J. Costello
9. Cultural Disorganization and Crime
Charis E. Kubrin
10. Social Disorganization, Collective Efficacy, and Macro-Level Theories of Social Control
Barbara D. Warner and Robert J. Sampson

Part IV: Beyond Kornhauser
11. Social Disorganization and Criminal Opportunity
Pamela Wilcox and Kenneth C. Land
12. Concentrated Disadvantage, the Persistence of Legal Cynicism, and Crime: Revisiting the Conception of "Culture" in Criminology
David S. Kirk and Andrew V. Papachristo
13. Neighborhoods, Social Networks, and Crime
John R. Hipp and Adam Boessen

Part V: Criticizing Kornhauser
14. The Contested Place of Motivation in Criminological Theory
David F. Greenberg
15. Taking Criminal Opportunity Seriously: An Actor-Centered Approach
Darrell J. Steffensmeier and Jeffery T. Ulmer
16. Bringing Gangs and Girls Back In
Cheryl L. Maxson

Contributors

Index

O autorze

Francis T. Cullen