Foreword - Ross L. Matsueda Foreword - Marvin E. Wolfgang Preface - the Editors Introduction: On Crime, Criminals, and Criminologists - James F. Short, Jr. Part I: What Is Criminology? The History and Definitions of Crime and Criminology Defining Crime: An Issue of Morality - John Hagan Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics - C. Ronald Huff Part II: How Do We View Crime? Images of Crime, Criminality, and Criminal Justice A Youth Violence Epidemic: Myth or Reality? - Franklin E. Zimring Realities and Images of Crack Mothers - Drew Humphries Breaking News: How Local TV News and Real-World Conditions Affect Fear of Crime - Ronald Weitzer and CHaris E. Kubrin The Politics of Crime - Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson Part III: Enduring and Changing Patterns of Crime Youth Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparison - Finn-Aage Esbensen and Frank M. Weerman Specialization and Persistence in the Arrest Histories of Sex Offenders: A Comparitive Analysis of Alternative Measures and Offense Types - Terance D. Miethe, Jodi Olson, and Ojmarrh Mitchell The Novelty of 'Cybercrime': An Assessment in Light of Routine Activity Theory - Majid Yar How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? - Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan Part IV: How is Crime Measured? The Observation and Measurement of Crime Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates across U.S. Cities - Steven F. Messner, Glenn D. Deane, Luc Anselin, and Benjamin Parson Nelson Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency - Delbert S. Elliot and Suzanne S. Ageton Gender and Adolescent Relationship Violence: A Contextual Examination - Jody Miller and Norman A. White The Criminology of Genocide: The Death and Rape of Darfur - John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, and Patricia Parker Part V: Who Are the Criminals? The Distribution and Correlates of Crime Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence - Eric Baumer, Julie Horney, Richard Felson, and Janet L. Lauritsen Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Violence: Structural Disadvantage, Family Well-Being, and Social Capital - Thomas McNulty and Paul E. Bellair Age and the Explanation of Crime - Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson Juvenile Delinquency and Gender - Josine Junger-Tas, Denis Ribeaud, and Maarten J. L. F. Cruyff Part VI: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part I Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas - Clifford R. Shaw and Henry McKay Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence - Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen W. Raudenbush A Theory of Crime: Differential Association - Edwin Sutherland Differential Association in Group and Solo Offending - Andy Hochstetler, Heith Copes, and Matt DeLisi Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton Poverty, Socioeconomic Change, Institutional Anomie, and Homicide - Sang-Weon Kim and William Alex Pridemore Part VII: How Do We Explain Crime? Foundational Theories of Modern Criminology, Part II The Subculture of Violence - Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency - Justin W. Patchin, Beth M. Huebner, John D. McCluskey, Sean P. Varano, and Timothy S. Bynum Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency - Travis Hirschi Exploring the Utility of Social Control Theory for Youth Development: Issues of Attachment, Involvement, and Gender - Angela Huebner and Sherry Betts Labeling Criminals - Edwin Schur Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory - Jon Gunnar Bernburg, Marvin D. Krohn, and Craig J. Rivera Crime and Subcultural Contradictions - William J. Chambliss Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences - David Jacobs, Jason T. Carmichael, and Stephanie L. Kent Part VIII: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part I The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control - Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi The Stability and Resiliency of Self-Control in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders - Ojmarrh Mitchell and Doris Layton Mackenzie Toward an Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control - Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects - Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub, and Cristopher Wimer Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach - Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide - George Tita and Elizabeth Griffiths Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency - Robert Agnew A Test of General Strain Theory - Lisa M. Broidy Part IX: How Do We Explain Crime? Contemporary Theories and Research, Part II The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis - Eric A. Stewart and Ronald L. Simons Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity - Barbara Hudson An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African-American Women's Experiences With Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach - Hillary Potter A Bio-Psychological Theory of Choice, from Crime and Human Nature - James Q. Wilson and Richard Hernstein Human Ecology, Crime, and Crime Control: Linking Individual Behavior and Aggregate Crime - Joanne Savage and Bryan Vila Males on the Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Pathways - Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Honalee Harrington, and Barry J. Milne The Relationships Among Self-Blame, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Victimization - Kimberly Hanson Breitenbecher Part X: How Do We Control Crime? Crime and Social Control Strengthening Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream - Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety - James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling The Changing Nature of the Death Penalty Debates - Michael L. Radelet and Marian J. Borg Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing Policy - Barry C. Feld The Impact of Restorative Interventions on Juvenile Offenders - Mara F. Schiff Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality - Bruce Western and Becky Pettit