SECTION I: Introduction to the Book: An Overview of Issues in Criminological Theory Reading 1. The Use and Usefulness of Criminology, 1751-2005: Enlightened Justice and Its Failures by Lawrence W. Sherman SECTION II: Pre-Classical and Classical Theories of Crime Reading 2. On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria Reading 3. Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas by Jon Sorensen, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart SECTION III: Modern Applications of the Classical Perspective: Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Routine Activities or Lifestyle Theories of Crime Reading 4. The Effects of Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Empirical Evidence by Anthony A. Braga and David L. Weisburd Reading 5. Specifying the Direct and Indirect Effects of Low Self-Control and Situational Factors in Offenders' Decision Making: Toward a More Complete Model of Rational Offending by Alex R. Piquero and Stephen G. Tibbetts Reading 6. Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place by Lawrence W. Sherman, Patrick R. Gartin, and Michael E. Buerger Reading 7. The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools, and Malls on the Spatial Distribution of Property Damage by Teresa C. LaGrange SECTION IV: Early Positive School Perspectives of Criminality Reading 8. The Criminal Man (L'uomo delinquente) by Cesare Lombroso (as translated by Mary Gibson and Nicole H. Rafter) Reading 9. The Contribution of Family Adversity and Verbal IQ to Criminal Behavior by Chris L. Gibson, Alex R. Piquero, and Stephen G. Tibbetts Section V: Modern Biosocial Perspectives of Criminal Behavior Reading 10. A Theory Explaining Biological Correlates of Criminality by Lee Ellis Reading 11. Neuroimaging Studies of Aggressive and Violent Behavior: Current Findings and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice by Jana L. Bufkin and Vickie R. Luttrell Reading 12. A Life-Course Analysis of the Criminogenic Effects of Maternal Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy: A Research Note on the Mediating Impact of Neuropsychological Deficit by Jean Marie McGloin, Travis C. Pratt, and Alex R. Piquero SECTION VI: Early Social Structure and Strain Theories of Crime Reading 13. Social Structure and Anomie by Robert K. Merton Reading 14. There's a Darkness on the Edge of Town: Merton's Five Modes of Adaptation in the Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen by Craig Hemmens Reading 15. Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory: Specifying the Types of Strain Most Likely to Lead to Crime and Delinquency by Robert Agnew SECTION VII: The Chicago School and Cultural and Subcultural Theories of Crime Reading 16. Delinquency Rates and Community Characteristics by Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay Reading 17. Replicating Sampson and Groves's Test of Social Disorganization Theory: Revisiting a Criminological Classic by Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Francis T. Cullen, and Travis C. Pratt Reading 18. Peaceful Warriors: Codes for Violence among Adult Male Bar Fighters by Heith Copes, Andy Hochstetler and Craig Forsyth SECTION VIII: Social Process and Learning Theories of Crime Reading 19. A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior by Edwin H. Sutherland Reading 20. A Social Learning Theory of Crime by Ronald L. Akers Reading 21. Do Women and Men Differ in Their Neutralizations of Corporate Crime? by Lynne M. Vieraitis, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Alex R. Piquero, Stephen G. Tibbetts, and Michael Blankenship Reading 22. Scared Kids, Unattached Kids, or Peer Pressure: Why Do Students Carry Firearms to School by David C. May SECTION IX: Social Reaction, Critical, and Feminist Models of Crime Reading 23. Informal Reactions and Delinquency by Lening Zhang Reading 24. Conflict Theory and Deviance in Sport by D. Stanley Eitzen Reading 25. Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime: Future Directions for Feminist Criminology by Amanda Burgess-Proctor SECTION X: Life-Course Perspectives of Criminality Reading 26. Criminal Career Paradigm: Background, Recent Developments, and the Way Forward by Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington, and Alfred Blumstein Reading 27. The Effects of Prenatal Problems, Family Functioning, and Neighborhood Disadvantage in Predicting Life-Course Persistent Offending by Michael G. Turner, Jennifer L. Hartman, and Donna M. Bishop Reading 28. Highlights From Pathways to Desistance: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Adolescent Offenders by Edward P. Mulvey SECTION XI: Integrated Theoretical Models and New Perspectives of Crime Reading 29. An Integrated Theoretical Perspective on Delinquent Behavior by Delbert S. Elliott, Suzanne S. Ageton, and Rachelle J. Canter Reading 30. An Exploratory Test of Braithwaite's Reintegrative Shaming Theory by Carter Hay Reading 31. Toward an Interactional Theory of Delinquency by Terence P. Thornberry SECTION XII: Applying Criminological Theory to Policy Reading 32. Crime and Public Policy by James Q. Wilson Reading 33. Toward an Integrated Theory of Probation by Craig S. Schwalbe