CRIMINOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST
SOCIOLOGY (PHD)
Kent State University – University of Akron
MINOR
Overview
Cullen, Francis T., John Paul Wright, and Kristie R. Blevins (eds). 2008. Taking Stock: The
Status of Criminological Theory, Advances in Criminological Theory series volume 15.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
Classical / Rational Choice
Nagin, Daniel S. 1998. “Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First
Century.”
Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 23: 1-42.
Nagin Daniel S, and Greg Pogarsky. 2001. “Integrating Celerity, Impulsivity, and
Extra-Legal Sanction Threats Into a Model of General Deterrence: Theory and
Evidence.”
Criminology 39:865-91.
Piliavin, Irving, Rosemary Gartner, Craig Thornton, and Ross L. Matsueda. 1986. “Crime,
Deterrence, and Rational Choice.”
American Sociological Review , 51: 101-119.
Roshier, Bob. 1989. Controlling Crime: The Classical Perspective in Criminology . Chicago, IL:
Lyceum Press.
Social Disorganization/Social Ecology
Bursik, Robert J. Jr. 1988. “Social Disorganization Theories of Crime and Delinquency:
Problems and Prospects.”
Criminology, 26 :519-552.
Sampson, Robert J. and Byron Groves. 1989. “Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social
Disorganization Theory.” American Journal of Sociology , 94 :774-802.
Shaw, Clifford and Henry H. McKay. 1969. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas . Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Stark, Rodney. 1987. “Deviant Places: A Theory of the Ecology of Crime.” Criminology , 25:
893-909.
Strain
Agnew, Robert. 1992. “Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency. “
Criminology , 30: 47-87.
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Agnew, Robert, Timothy Brezina, John Paul Wright, and Francis T. Cullen. 2002. “Strain,
Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory.” Criminology 40:
43-71.
Messner, Steven F. and Richard Rosenfeld. 2007. Crime and the American Dream . Belmont,
CA: Wadsworth.
Merton, Robert K. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie.” American Sociological Review, 3:
672-682.
Subculture
Cloward, Richard. 1959. “Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior.” American
Sociological Review . 44:588-608.
Cohen, Albert K. 1955. Delinquent Boys. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Miller, Walter B. 1958. "Lower-Class Culture as Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency."
Journal of Social Issues 14:5-19.
Wolfgang, Marvin E. and Franco Ferracuti. 1967 (reprinted 2001). The Subculture of
Violence: Toward an Integrated Theory in Criminology.
New York: Tavistock
Publications. Ch 1 and 3
Differential Association/Social Learning
Burgess, Robert L. and Ronald L. Akers, Ronald. 1966. “A differential association- reinforcement theory of criminal behavior.” Social Problems, 14, 128-147.
Matsueda, Ross L. 1988. “The current state of differential association theory.” Crime &
Delinquency, 34:277-306.
Sykes, Gresham and David Matza. 1957. “Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of
Delinquency.”
American Sociological Review 22:664-673.
Tittle, Charles R., Mary Jean Burke, and Elton F. Jackson. 1986. “Modeling Sutherland’s
Theory of Differential Association: Toward and Empirical Clarification.” Social Forces
65: 405-432.
Labeling/ Shaming
Becker, Howard S. 1963. Outsiders. New York: Free Press.
Braithewaite, John. 1989. Crime, Shame, and Reintegration . Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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Hay, Carter. 2001. “An Exploratory Test of Braithwaite’s Reintegrative Shaming Theory.”
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 38:132-153.
Paternoster, Raymond and Leeann Iovanni. 1989. “The labeling perspective and delinquency:
An elaboration of the theory and assessment of the evidence.” Justice Quarterly, 6: 359-
394.
Schur, Edwin M. 1971. Labeling Deviant Behavior. New York: Harper and Row.
Control Theories
Costello, Barbara and Paul R. Vowell. 1999. “Testing Control Theory and Differential
Association: A Reanalysis of the Richmond Youth Project Data.” Criminology 37:815-
842.
Hirschi, Travis. 1969 (reprinted 2002). Causes of Delinquency . Reprint. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction.
Kornhauser, Ruth R. 1978. Social Sources of Delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Gottfredson, Michael R. and Travis Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Pratt, Travis C. and Francis T. Cullen. 2000. "The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's
General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis." Criminology 38:931-964.
Routine Activities
Cohen, Lawrence E. & Felson, Marcus. 1979. “Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activities approach.” American Sociological Review, 44: 588-608.
Osgood, Wayne D. Janet K. Wilson, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O’Malley, and Lloyd D.
Johnston. 1996. “Routine activities and individual deviant behavior.”
Sociological Review, 61: 635-655.
American
Life-course / Developmental
Piquero, Alex R., David P. Farrington, and Alfred Blumstein. 2003. “The Criminal Career
Paradigm.” Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 30: 359-506.
Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1993. Crime in the Making. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
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Marxist and Feminist
Chesney-Lind, Meda. 2006. "Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of
Backlash." Feminist Criminology 1:6-26.
Daly, Kathleen and Meda Chesney-Lind. 1988. "Feminism and Criminology." Justice Quarterly
5:497-538.
Greenberg, David. 1993. Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Hagan, John, A. R. Gillis, and John Simpson. 1985. "The Class Structure of Gender and
Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior."
American Journal of Sociology 90:1151-1178.
Spitzer, Steven. 1975. “Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance.” Social Problems 22: 638-651.
Methods / Data issues
Biderman, Albert D., James P. Lynch, J.L. Peterson. 1991. Understanding Crime Incidence
Statistics: Why the UCR Diverges from the NCS. New York, NY: Springer.
Chilton, Roland and John Jarvis. 1999. “Victims and Offenders in Two Crime Statistics
Programs: A Comparison of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).”
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology , 15: 193-205.
D’Alessio, Stewart J. and Lisa Stolzenberg. 2003. “Race and the Probability of Arrest.”
Social
Forces, 81: 1381-1397.
Elliott, Delbert S. and Suzanne S. Ageton. 1980. “Reconciling race and class differences in self-reported and official measures.” American Sociological Review 44: 95-110.
Feenan, Dermot. 2005. “Criminological Research: Understanding Qualitative Methods.”
Howard
Journal of Criminal Justice 44:553-555.
Gottfredson and Hirschi. 1987. “On the methodological adequacy of longitudinal research.”
Criminology, 25: 581-614.
Hindelang, Hirschi and Weis. 1981. Measuring Delinquency . Beverly Hills: Sage.
Hirschi, Travis and Hanan C. Selvin. 1996 (reprinted 2006). Delinquency Research: An
Appraisal of Analytic Methods . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
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Keiser, Kees, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Linda Steg. 2008. “The Spreading of Disorder.”
Science, 322: 1681-1685.
Maxfield, Michael G. 1999. “The National Incident-Based Reporting System: Research and
Policy Applications.”
Quantitative Criminology, 15(2): 119-149
Steffensmeier, Darrell, Hua Zhong Jeff Ackerman, Jennifer Schwartz, and Suzanne Agha. 2006.
“Gender Gap Trends for Violent Crimes, 1980 to 2003: A UCR-NCVS Comparison.”
Feminist Criminology, 1: 72-98.
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