Crime and Social Institutions

Crime and Social Institutions

Rosenfeld, Richard; Mars, Professor Gerald; Nelken, Professor David

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2006

568

Dura

Inglês

9780754625018

15 a 20 dias

Presents theoretical arguments and empirical research on the relationship between crime and the structure of communities and whole societies. Focusing on the 'institutional-anomie' perspective and allied crime theories, this book examines the impact on crime of the family, education, community organizations and social welfare institutions.
Contents: Introduction. Theoretical Considerations: 'Institutionalizing' criminological theory, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; Anomie, social change and crime: a theoretical examination of institutional-anomie theory, Jon Gunnar Bernburg; Crime punishment and the American dream: toward a Marxist integration, Barbara Sims; Reflections on crime and criminology at the millennium, Elliott Currie; Social support as an organizing concept for criminology, Francis T. Cullen. Cross-National Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide: a cross-national application of institutional-anomie theory, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; Inequality, welfare state and homicide: further support for the institutional-anomie theory, Jukka Savolainen; Social support, inequality and homicide: a cross-national test of an integrated theoretical model, Travis C. Pratt and Timothy W. Godsey; Cross-national differences in managers' willingness to justify ethically suspect behaviors: a test of institutional-anomie theory, John B. Cullen, K Praveen Parboteeah and Martin Hoegl. Based Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Assessing Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional-anomie theory: a partial test, Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran); On testing institutional-anomie theory with varying specifications, Alex Piquero and Nicole Leeper Piquero; Social institutions and violence: a sub-national test of institutional-anomie theory, Michael O. Maume and Matthew R. Lee; Decommodification and homicide rates in the 20th-century United States, Candice Batton and Gary Jensen; Social altruism and crime, Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K Cochran. Crime and Institutional Dynamics at the Local Level: Local politics and violent crime in US cities, Thomas D. Stucky; Disadvantage and neighborhood violent crime: do local institutions matter?, Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo and Mark A. Harris; The role of public social control in urban neighborhoods: a multi-level analysis of victimization risk, Maria B. Velez; Industrial shift, polarized labor markets and urban violence: modeling the dynamics between the economic transformation and disaggregated homicide, Karen Parker. Implications for Punishment: The political economy of imprisonment in affluent Western democracies, 1960-1990, John R. Sutton ; Incarceration, social capital and crime: implications for social disorganization theory, Dina Rose and Todd Clear; Index.
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