Vold's Theoretical Criminology

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by Thomas Bernard, Jeffrey B. Snipes, Rick Trinkner

9th Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Print ISBN	9780197750438
eText ISBN	9780197750445
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publishing Year	2024
Edition	9th Edition
Language	English
Pages	488

Vold's Theoretical Criminology, 9th Edition presents a thorough examination of criminological perspectives and their applications to understanding criminal behavior. Authored by Thomas Bernard, Jeffrey B. Snipes, and Rick Trinkner, this textbook connects historical contexts of criminological thought directly with modern empirical research.

The material synthesizes broad thematic arcs across the history of the discipline. Readers explore classical criminology, deterrence research, rational choice theory, routine activities, and victimization alongside biosocial criminology and psychological factors in criminal behavior. The text further covers Emile Durkheim's concepts of anomie and modernization, strain theories, neighborhood influences on crime, learning theories, and control theories.

Published by Oxford University Press in 2024, this 488-page volume meets the needs of introductory criminology students, upper-level undergraduates, and graduate students alike. It offers university instructors and criminology scholars a clear, empirical foundation for coursework and theoretical analysis across academic levels.

Chapter 1: Theory and Crime
- • 1.1 Spiritual Explanations
- • 1.2 Natural Explanations
- • 1.3 Scientific Theories
- • 1.4 Causation in Scientific Theories
- • 1.5 Three Categories of Criminological Theories
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Classical Criminology
- • 2.1 The Social and Intellectual Background of Classical Criminology
- • 2.2 Beccaria and the Classical School
- • 2.3 The Neoclassical School
- • 2.4 From Classical Theory to Deterrence Research
- • 2.5 Nagin's Review of Deterrence Research
- • 2.6 Rational Choice and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
- • 2.7 Routine Activities and Victimization
- • 2.8 Focused Deterrence: Operation Ceasefire
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 3: Bioscocial Criminology
- • 3.1 Background: Physical Appearance And Defectiveness
- • 3.2 Lombroso, the Born Criminal, and Positivist Criminology
- • 3.3 Goring's Refutation of the Born Criminal
- • 3.4 Body Type Theories
- • 3.5 Family Studies
- • 3.6 Twin and Adoption Studies
- • 3.7 Epigenetics and the Role of Heritability Studies in Biosocial Criminology
- • 3.8 MAOA: The Warrior Gene
- • 3.9 Hormones
- • 3.10 The Neural Basis of Crime
- • 3.11 Environmentally Induced Biological Components of Behavior
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Psychological Factors and Criminal Behavior
- • 4.1 Intelligence and Crime: Background Ideas and Concepts
- • 4.2 IQ Tests and Criminal Behavior
- • 4.3 Delinquency, Race, and IQ
- • 4.4 Interpreting the Association Between Delinquency and IQ
- • 4.5 Personality and Criminal Behavior: An Overview
- • 4.6 Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
- • 4.7 Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder
- • 4.8 Depression and Delinquency
- • 4.9 Trait Perspectives & the Five Factor Model of Personality
- • 4.10 Impulsivity and Crime
- • 4.11 Moffitt's Life-Course-Persistent Offenders
- • 4.12 Clinical Prediction of Future Dangerousness
- • 4.13 Actuarial Prediction of Later Crime and Delinquency
- • 4.14 Policy Implications of Personality Research
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Durkheim, Anomie, and Modernization
- • 5.1 Emile Durkheim
- • 5.2 Crime as Normal in Mechanical Societies
- • 5.3 Anomie as a Pathological State in Organic Societies
- • 5.4 Durkheim's Theory of Crime
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 6: Strain Theories
- • 6.1 Robert K. Merton and Anomie in American Society
- • 6.2 Cohen's Middle Class Measuring Rod
- • 6.3 Cloward and Ohlin's Typology of Gangs
- • 6.4 1960s Strain-Based Policies
- • 6.5 The Decline and Resurgence of Strain Theories
- • 6.6 Agnew's General Strain Theory
- • 6.7 Messner and Rosenfeld's Institutional Anomie Theory
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 7: Neighborhoods and Crime
- • 7.1 The Theory of Human Ecology
- • 7.2 Research in The Delinquency Areas of Chicago
- • 7.3 Policy Implications
- • 7.4 Residential Succession, Social Disorganization, and Crime
- • 7.5 Sampson's Theory of Collective Efficacy
- • 7.6 Neighborhood Disorder, Crime, & Policing
- • 7.7 Crime in Public Housing
- • 7.8 Social Disorganization and Crime in Rural Areas
- • 7.9 Expanding Interest in Neighborhood Social Processes
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 8: Learning Theories
- • 8.1 Basic Psychological Approaches to Learning
- • 8.2 Tarde's Laws of Imitation and Bandura's Social Learning Theory
- • 8.3 Sutherland's Differential Association Theory
- • 8.4 Research Testing Sutherland's Theory
- • 8.5 The Content of Learning: Cultural and Subcultural Theories
- • 8.6 The Learning Process: Akers's Social Learning Theory
- • 8.7 Assessing Social Learning Theory
- • 8.8 Athens's Theory of Violentization
- • 8.9 Katz's Seductions of Crime
- • 8.10 Labeling Theories
- • 8.11 Implications
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 9: Control Theories
- • 9.1 Early Control Theories: Reiss to Nye
- • 9.2 Matza's Delinquency and Drift
- • 9.3 Hirschi's Social Control Theory
- • 9.4 Assessing Social Control Theory
- • 9.5 Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime
- • 9.6 Assessing Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 10: Conflict Criminology
- • 10.1 Early Conflict Theories: Sellin and Vold
- • 10.2 Conflict Theories in A Time of Conflict: Turk, Quinney, And Chambliss and Seidman
- • 10.3 Black's Theory of The Behavior of Law
- • 10.4 A Unified Conflict Theory of Crime
- • 10.5 Minority Threat Theory
- • 10.6 Cumulative Disadvantage in The American Criminal Justice System
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 11: Marxist, Postmodern, and Green Criminology
- • 11.1 Overview of Marx's Theory
- • 11.2 Marx on Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice
- • 11.3 The Emergence of Marxist Criminology
- • 11.4 Marxist Theory and Research on Crime
- • 11.5 Overview of Postmodernism
- • 11.6 Postmodern Criminology
- • 11.7 Green Criminology
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 12: Gender and Crime
- • 12.1 The Development of Feminist Criminology
- • 12.2 Schools of Feminist Criminology
- • 12.3 Gender in Criminology
- • 12.4 Why Are Women's Crime Rates So Low?
- • 12.5 Why Are Men's Crime Rates So High?
- • 12.6 The Narrowing of The Gender Gap in Violence
- • 12.7 Beyond the Gender Gap
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 13: Developmental and Life-Course Theories
- • 13.1 The Great Debate: Criminal Careers, Longitudinal Research, and the Relationship Between Age and Crime
- • 13.2 Criminal Propensity Versus Criminal Career
- • 13.3 The Transition to Developmental Criminology
- • 13.4 Three Developmental Directions
- • 13.5 New Directions in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 14: Integrated Theories
- • 14.1 Elliott's Integrated Theory of Delinquency and Drug Use
- • 14.2 The Falsification Versus Integration Debate
- • 14.3 Braithwaite's Theory of Reintegrative Shaming
- • 14.4 Tittle's Control Balance Theory
- • 14.5 Differential Coercion and Social Support Theory
- • 14.6 Bernard and Snipes's Approach to Integrating Criminology Theories
- • 14.7 Agnew's General Theory
- • 14.8 Gottschalk's Theory of Convenience
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions
Chapter 15: Theory and Policy in Context
- • 15.1 Crime in the United States: The Past Half-Century
- • 15.2 Two Opposing Narratives of the Crime Wave
- • 15.3 Explaining the 1990s Decline
- • 15.4 The City That Became Safe
- • 15.5 Crime in the U.S. During the Pandemic
- • Conclusions
- • Key Terms
- • Discussion Questions