Out of control: assessing the general theory of crime

Contents Preface xxx Contributors xxx Part I General Considerations 1 Out of Control? An Introduction to the General Theory of Crime 000 Erich Goode 2 Measuring Self-Control 000 Alex Piquero 3 Age, Sex, and Racial Distributions of Crime 000 David F. Greenberg 4 The Undeveloped Concept of Opportunity 000 Sally S. Simpson and Gilbert Geis 5 Parenting and Self-Control 000 Francis T. Cullen, James D. Unnever, John Paul Wright, and Kevin M. Beaver II Part II Theories of Crime 6 Self-Control and Social Learning Theory 000 Ronald L. Akers 7 Self-Control, Anomie, and Social Institutions 000 Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner 8 On the Compatibility of Social Disorganization and Self-Control 000 Ross L. Matsueda 9 A Feminist Consideration of Gender and Crime 000 LeeAnn Iovanni and Susan L. Miller Part III Types of Crime 10 Low Self-Control and High Organizational Control: The Paradoxes of White-Collar Crime 000 David O. Friedrichs and Martin D. Schwartz 11 Violent Crime 000 Richard B. Felson and D. Wayne Osgood 12 Property Crimes 000 Marc L. Swatt and Robert F. Meier 13 Drug Use and Criminal Behavior 000 Erich Goode Part IV Concluding Thoughts 14 Self-Control: A Hypercritical Assessment 000 Gilbert Geis 15 Critiquing the Critics: The Authors Respond 000 Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson Bibliography 000 Index 000