Handbook on Crime and Deviance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Methodological Issues in Crime Research by Alan Lizotte

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Place-Based Data, Methods, and Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

      • Martin A. Andresen, Tarah Hodgkinson

      Pages 3-19

   3. NIBRS as the New Normal: What Fully Incident-Based Crime Data Mean for Researchers

      • Lynn A. Addington

      Pages 21-33

   4. Ethical Controversies in Engaged Research

      • Nicole Janich, David E. Duffee

      Pages 35-51

   5. Victimization at Schools and on College and University Campuses: Historical Developments and Applications of the Opportunity Framework

      • Leah C. Butler, Teresa C. Kulig, Bonnie S. Fisher, Pamela Wilcox

      Pages 53-84

3. Explanations of Crime by Marvin D. Krohn

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-87

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   2. The Biosocial Perspective: A Brief Overview and Potential Contributions to Criminological Theory

      • Joseph A. Schwartz, Anthony Walsh, Kevin M. Beaver

      Pages 89-111

   3. The Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance

      • Ronald L. Akers, Wesley G. Jennings

      Pages 113-129

   4. Self-Control Theory: Theoretical and Research Issues

      • Michael Rocque, Alex R. Piquero

      Pages 131-144

   5. General Strain Theory

      • Robert Agnew, Timothy Brezina

      Pages 145-160

   6. Institutional Anomie Theory: An Evolving Research Program

      • Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld, Andreas Hövermann

      Pages 161-177

   7. Labeling Theory

      • Jón Gunnar Bernburg

      Pages 179-196

   8. Social Disorganization Theory: Past, Present and Future

      • Charis E. Kubrin, Michelle D. Mioduszewski

      Pages 197-211

   9. Social Support and Crime

      • Cecilia Chouhy

      Pages 213-241

   10. Control Balance Theory of Deviance

       • Charles R. Tittle, Cindy Brooks Dollar

       Pages 243-257

   11. Situational Action Theory: A General, Dynamic and Mechanism-Based Theory of Crime and Its Causes

       • Per-Olof H. Wikström

       Pages 259-281

   12. Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Crime and Deviance

       • Jeffrey T. Ward

       Pages 283-308

   13. The “Great American Crime Decline”: Possible Explanations

       • Maria Tcherni-Buzzeo

       Pages 309-335

4. Criminal Justice-Related Issues by Gina Penly Hall

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-339

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This 2nd edition of the Handbook provides an interdisciplinary coverage of new understandings of the most important developments in the sociology of crime and deviance that is current and emerging for research, methodology, practice, and theory in criminology. It fosters research to take the fields of criminology and criminal justice in new directions. Unlike any other handbook, it includes chapters on cutting-edge quantitative data and analytical techniques that are shaping the future of empirical research and expanding theoretical explanations of crime and deviance. It further devotes a section to the most current and innovative methodological issues. Chapters are updated providing an inclusive discussion of the current research and the theoretical and empirical future of crime and deviance. This handbook is of great interest for advanced undergraduates, graduates students, researchers and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, sociology and related fields, such as social welfare, economics, and psychology.

• Sociology of Crime and Deviance
• Methodological Issues in Crime Research
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Biosocial Criminology
• Self Control Theory
• Developmental and Life Course Theory
• Desistance of Crime
• Crime in Schools
• Family Violence
• Preventing Crime
• Cybercrime and Prevention
• Green Criminology
• Crime and Unemployment
• Terrorism and Crime
• Mental Health Issues and Crime
• Legal and Illegal Gun Ownership in America

     

• Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Marvin D. Krohn

• Department of Criminal Justice, Radford University, Radford, USA

  Nicole Hendrix

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

  Gina Penly Hall, Alan J. Lizotte

Marv Krohn is currently a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. Professor Krohn has a long-standing interest in the etiology of delinquency and drug use, focusing primarily on social process and life course approaches.  For the past thirty years he has been a Co-Principal Investigator on the Rochester Youth Development Study, a three generational longitudinal panel study targeting those at high risk for serious crime and delinquency.  His book (with co-authors Terence P. Thornberry, Alan J. Lizotte, Carolyn A. Smith and Kimberly Tobin), Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective, was the American Society of Criminology’s recipient of the 2003 Michael J. Hindelang Award for Outstanding Scholarship.  Professor Krohn also co-authored Delinquent Behavior (with Don C. Gibbons) and Researching Theories of Crime and Delinquency (with Charis E. Kubrin and Thomas D. Stucky) and has co-edited seven compendiums on crime and delinquency.  In addition, he has contributed numerous research articles and book chapters.  He is a former Vice President and Executive Counselor of the American Society of Criminology and was named a Fellow of that Society.  Professor Krohn has also won teaching awards at both SUNY Albany and the University of Florida and most recently was presented with the Outstanding Mentor Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.


Gina Penly Hall, Ph.D. has published numerous articles and book chapters over the years. At the core of her substantive interests are the theoretical ideas of social ecology, with her research focusing on how human behavior is a product of how individuals interact with their environments.  She currently works with youth in a school setting as a Learning Strategist where she coordinates and implements academic and behavioral interventions.


Alan Lizotte Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, The University at Albany. He is co-principal investigator on the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing thirty year longitudinal study of juvenile delinquency and drug use covering three generations of subjects.  His substantive interests include illegal firearms ownership and use and developmental criminology.  In 2003, he and his coauthors were awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Hindelang Award for the book Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective. Professor Lizotte is an American Society of Criminology Fellow.

Nicole Hendrix is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. She earned her doctoral degree from the University at Albany. Her research has bridged the academic and professional realms within the field of criminal justice and included a number of projects involving agencies and institutions within criminal justice across Virginia and in other states. Her research interests varies as she applies her research methodology skills to a diverse array of topics and projects. 

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