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Handbook on Crime and Deviance

  • Focusing on methodological issues in criminology
  • Contributions by the top researchers in the field
  • Examines interdisciplinary causes of crime, and methods for prevention

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Methodological Issues In Crime Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
  3. Methodological Issues in Crime Research Introduction

    1. Longitudinal Data and Their Uses

      • Alan J. Lizotte, David McDowall, Nicole M. Schmidt
      Pages 43-58
    2. Group-Based Modeling: An Overview

      • Daniel S. Nagin
      Pages 59-73
  4. Explanations of Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-77
  5. Explanations of Crime Introduction

    1. Biosocial Criminology

      • Anthony Walsh, Kevin M. Beaver
      Pages 79-101
    2. The Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance

      • Ronald L. Akers, Wesley G. Jennings
      Pages 103-120
    3. Self-Control Theory: Research Issues

      • Alex R. Piquero
      Pages 153-168
    4. General Strain Theory

      • Robert Agnew
      Pages 169-185
    5. Labeling Theory

      • Jón Gunnar Bernburg
      Pages 187-207
    6. Institutional Anomie Theory: A Macro-sociological Explanation of Crime

      • Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld
      Pages 209-224
  6. Criminal Justice-Related Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-239
  7. Criminal Justice – Related Issues Introduction

    1. Desistance from Crime

      • Lila Kazemian, Shadd Maruna
      Pages 277-295

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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany, USA

    Marvin D. Krohn

  • School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany, U.S.A.

    Alan J. Lizotte, Gina Penly Hall

About the editors

Marvin Krohn is the Associate Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany.  He was previously on the Executive Council of the American Society of Criminology and was an associate editor for Criminology.  Alan Lizotte is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at SUNY Albany and the Executive Directro of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center also at SUNY Albany      

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