Of Crime and Criminality

Sally S. Simpson is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include corporate crime, criminological theory, and the intersection between gender, race, class, and crime. Simpson is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and,in 2008, was named Distinguished Scholar by the Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology. Simpson has served as President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is former Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association and past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium. Recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology, in 2010 Simpson was named Woman of the Year by the President′s Commission on Women′s Issues at the Unviersity of Maryland.

A very good text which was clear and well written for u/g and p/g.

• Prelude - Sally S SimpsonIntroductory Chapter - Don C GibbonsCriminology, Criminologists, and Criminological TheoryPART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER, RACE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINALITY AND CRIME CONTROLDifferential Association Theory and Female Crime - Peggy C Giordana and Sharon Mohler RockwellFeminist Theories of Women′s Crime - Jody MillerRobbery as a Case StudyRacial Hoaxes - Katheryn K RussellApplied Critical Race TheoryThe War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy - Katherine Beckett and Theodore SassonA Neo-Marxian Theory of New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice PolicyPART TWO: TRADITIONAL CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY UPDATEDThe Systematic Theory of Neighborhood Crime Rates - Robert J Bursik JrStrain Theory and School Crime - Robert AgnewThe Dramatization of Evil - Ruth TriplettReacting to Juvenile Delinquency During the 1990′sPART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY - NEW IDEAS, APPLICATION, AND ISSUESThe Social Control of Corporate Criminals - Sally S Simpson, M Lyn Exum, and N Craig SmithShame and Informal Sanction ThreatsWhither the Beast? - Jeffrey Bouffard, M Lyn Exum, and Raymond PaternosterThe Role of Emotions as a Rational Choice Theory of CrimeUnderstanding Illicit Drug Use - Paul MaxerolleLessons from Developmental TheoryThe Routine Activity Approach as a General Crime Theory - Marcus Felson