Theories of Delinquency

📖 The Scoop

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Explanations of Delinquency -- The Problem of Delinquency -- The Issue of Causality -- What Is a Theory? -- Verification of Theories -- The Plan of This Book -- 2. The Classical School: Issues of Choice and Reasoning -- Historical Overview -- Rational Choice Theory -- Summary -- 3. Biological and Biosocial Explanations -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Somatotypes and Delinquency -- Inheritance and Delinquency -- Emerging Trends in Biological Explanations of Delinquency -- Summary -- 4. Psychological Theories -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Intelligence and Delinquency -- The Psychiatric-Psychoanalytic Approach -- General Personality Characteristics -- Summary -- 5. Social Disorganization and Anomie -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Social Disorganization -- Anomie and Delinquency: Discontinuities in Society -- Summary -- 6. Lower-Class-Based Theories of Delinquency -- Historical Overview and Generic Assumptions -- Cohen and the Middle-Class Measuring Rod -- Cloward and Ohlin's Theory of Differential Opportunity -- Structure -- Miller's Theory of Lower-Class Culture and Delinquency -- Summary -- 7. Interpersonal and Situational Explanations -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Differential Association -- Drift and Delinquency -- Summary -- 8. Control Theories -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Personal Controls -- Social Controls-The Social Bond -- A General Theory of Crime -- Summary -- 9.Labeling Theory -- Historical Overview -- Generic Assumptions -- Summary -- 10. The Radical Theory of Delinquency -- Historical Overview -- Beyond "Radical" Theory -- 11. Female Delinquency -- Historical Overview -- Basic Biological and Psychological Approaches -- Gender Roles and Delinquency -- Women's Emancipation -- Evaluation -- Power-Control Theory -- Feminist Explanations of Female Delinquency -- Summary -- 12. Delinquency Theory: An Integrative Approach -- Integrated Theories: Some Considerations and a -- Proposed Model -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Genre: Social Science / Criminology (fancy, right?)