Title: The legacy of anomie theory /
Authors: Adler, Freda.; Laufer, William S.; Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Crime Sociological aspects; Criminology.; Anomy.; Deviant behavior.; Anomie; Criminology; Social Behavior Disorders
Contents: Opportunity structure: the emergence, diffusion, and differentiation of a sociological concept, 1930s-1950s / Robert K. Merton -- Merton versus Hirschi: who is faithful to Durkheim's heritage? / Thomas J. Bernard -- Continuities in the anomie tradition / Nikos Passas -- The contribution of social-psychological strain theory to the explanation of crime and delinquency / Robert Agnew -- Salvaging structure through strain: a theoretical and empirical critique / Gary F. Jensen -- Crime and the American dream: an institutional analysis / Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner -- Ethics and crime in business firms: organizational culture and the impact of anomie / Deborah Vidaver Cohen -- White-collar crime and anomie / Elin Waring, David Weisburd, and Ellen Chayet -- Social order and gang formation in Chinatown / Ko-lin Chin and Jeffrey Fagan -- Cloward and Ohlin's strain theory reexamined: an elaborated theoretical model / John P. Hoffmann and Timothy Ireland -- Synnomie to anomie: a macrosociological formulation / Freda Adler -- Kristian Georgevich Rakovsky: a criminological interlude / Leon Radzinowicz -- Contemporary criminological theory and historical data: the sex ratio of London crime / David F. Greenberg -- Social reaction and secondary deviance in culture and society: the United States and Japan / S. George Vincentnathan -- Discrepancies in the control of elite and lower-status deviance: a theory of multiple control / Bonnie Berry -- In defense of comparative criminology: a critique of general theory and the rational man / Michael J. Lynch and W. Byron Groves -- Comments on volume 3 / C. Ray Jeffery -- Comments on volume 1 and volume 2 / Gilbert Geis.