Out of control
Subtitle: assessing the general theory of crime
By: edited by Erich Goode.
Contributors: Goode, Erich.
Publisher: Stanford Social Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804758192; 9780804758208
Subjects: Gottfredson, Michael R; Criminology -- Methodology; Criminal behavior; Self-control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Out of control? : an introduction to the general theory of crime / Erich Goode; title: Measuring self-control / Alex Piquero; title: Age, sex, and racial distributions of crime / David F. Greenberg; title: The undeveloped concept of opportunity / Sally S. Simpson and Gilbert Geis; title: Parenting and self-control / Francis T. Cullen, James D. Unnever, John Paul Wright, and Kevin M. Beaver II; title: Self-control and social learning theory / Ronald L. Akers; title: Self-control, anomie, and social institutions / Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner; title: On the compatibility of social disorganization and self-control / Ross L. Matsueda; title: A feminist consideration of gender and crime / LeeAnn Iovanni and Susan L. Miller; title: Low self-control and high organizational control : the paradoxes of white-collar crime / David O. Friedrichs and Martin D. Schwartz; title: Violent crime / Richard B. Felson and D. Wayne Osgood; title: Property crimes / Marc L. Swatt and Robert F. Meier; title: Drug use and criminal behavior / Erich Goode; title: Self-control : a hypercritical assessment / Gilbert Geis; title: Critiquing the critics : the authors respond / Travis Hirschi and Michael R. Gottfredson.