NCJ Number
153193
Date Published
1994
Length
498 pages
Annotation
This volume provides an overview of contemporary criminological theory; the essays included here were chosen because they are likely to exert an enormous influence on future theoretical and empirical work, they were neglected by criminologists but should not have been, or they illustrate the relationship of control to crime.
Abstract
The themes around which the essays here center include control and support, control and shaming, control and context, control and power, and control and competition. The sections of the volume focus on specific topics including new directions in control theory; interaction, self, and crime; stratification and crime; gender, power, and crime; and reconsidering strain theory. Chapter references