The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy 5th edition



DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

SUGGESTED READING LIST

This list of readings is in no way meant to be comprehensive. It is a good starting point and should be used by the student as a guide. You are encouraged to go off of the list and read materials appropriate to the topics discussed in your classes. Students will be tested in four substantive areas: Criminological Theory; Research Methods; Law & Social Control; and either Correctional Treatment/Administration or Policing.

Criminological Theory

Akers, R.L. (2000) Criminological Theories (Roxbury).

Akers, Ronald L. & Sellers, C. (2003). Criminological theories: Introduction and evaluation (4th ed.). Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Bohm, R. M. (2001) A Premier on Crime and Delinquency Theory (Wadsworth).

Brown, S.E., Esbensen, F. & Geis, G. (2001) Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context (Anderson Publishing).

Cullen, F. & Agnew (2003). Criminological theory: Past to present (2nd or 3rd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing.

Curran, D.J. & Renzetti, C.M. (2001) Theories of Crime (Allyn and Bacon).

Kramer, Ronald C. (1982) The Debate over the Definition of Crime: Paradigms, Value Judgments, and Criminological Work, in Frederick Elliston and Norman E. Bowie (ed) Ethics, Public Policy, and Criminal Justice (Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, Cambridge, MA).

Paternoster, R. & Bachman, R. (2000) Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory (Roxbury).

Renzetti, C.M., Curran, D.M. & Carr, P.J. (2003) Theories of Crime: A Reader (Allyn and

bacon).

Traub, S.H. & Little, C.B. (1999) Theories of Deviance (F. E. Peacock Publishers)

A. E. Liska & S. F. Messner (1999) Perspectives on Crime and Deviance (Prentice-Hall).

Steven. E. Barkan (2001) Criminology: A Sociological Understanding (Prentice-Hall).

Matthew B. Robinson (2004) Why Crime? An Integrated Systems Theory of Antisocial Behavior (Prentice-Hall).

Imogene L. Moyer (2001) Criminological Theories (Sage Publications).

William J. Chambliss (1988) Exploring Criminology (Macmillan Publishing).

Stephen J. Pfohl (1985) Images of Deviance and Social Control (McGraw-Hill).

R. L. Akers & C. Ellers (2003) Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (Roxbury).

M. J. Lynch, R. Michalowski, & W. B. Groves (2000) The New Primer in Radical Criminology: Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power, and Identity (Criminal Justice Press).

James W. Coleman (2002) The Criminal Elite (Worth Publishers).

Neal Shover & John P. Wright (2001) Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crimes

(Oxford University Press).

David M. Horton (2000) Pioneering Perspectives in Criminology (Copperhouse Publishing).

Jeffrey Reiman (2004) The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison (Allyn and Bacon).

Samuel Walker (2001) Sense and Nonsense About Crime and Drugs (Wadsworth).

Diana Fishbein (2001) Behavioral Perspectives in Criminology (Wadsworth).

Henry N. Pontell (1999) Social Deviance: Readings in Theory & Research ( Prentice Hall).

Conklin, John. (2003). Why crime rates fell. New York: Allyn & Bacon.

Currie, Elliott. (1998). Crime and punishment in America. New York: Metropolitan Books.

LaFree, G. (2000). Nature of crime: Continuity and change. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. Retrieve from

Anderson, E. (1999) Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN: 0-393-04023-2

Mike Huckabee (1998). Kids who kill: Confronting our culture of violence. Broadman & Holman Publishers. ISBN-10: 080541794X

Jonathan Kozol (1995/1996). Amazing Grace: The Live of Children and the conscience of a Nation. Crown Publishers/Harper Perennial. ISBN-10: 0060976977

John H. Laub & Robert J. Sampson (2003). Shared beginnings, divergent lives: Delinquent boys to age 70. Harvard University Press. ISBN-10: 0674019938

Steven F. Messner & Richard Rosenfeld (2007). Crime and the American dream, 4th ed. Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN-10: 0534619584

William Julius Wilson (1997). When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor. Vintage Books. ISBN-10: 0679724176

Massey, Douglas S., and Denton, Nancy A. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN:0-674-01821-4

Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New York: A Touchstone Book. ISBN: 0-7432-9448-3

Lane, Roger. 1979. Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in the Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. ISBN: 0-8142-5021-1

Reiman, Jeffrey. 2004. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. Allyn and Bacon. ISBN:0-02-399252-2

Shover, Neal. 1996. Great Pretenders: Pursuits and Careers of Persistent Thieves. Boulder, CO: Westview. ISBN: 0-8133-2811-x

Burns, B.J., Howell, J.C., Wiig, J.K., Augimeri, L.K., Welsh, B.C., Loeber, R., & Petechuk, D. (2003). Child Delinquency Bulletin Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ 193410

DeJong, C. (1997). Survival analysis and specific deterrence: integrating theoretical and empirical models of recidivism. Criminology, 35(4), 561-575.

Farrington, D. (2007). Advancing knowledge about desistance. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23(1), 125-134.

Hawkins, J. D., Herrenkohl, T. I., Farrington, D. P., Brewer, D., Catalano, R.F., Harachi, T.W., & Cother, L. (2000). Predictors of youth violence. Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NCJ 179065

Jaffe, S., Blesky, J., Harrington, H.L., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T.E. (2006). When parents have a history of conduct disorder: How is the caregiving environment affected? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(2), 309-319

Kazemian, L. (2007). Desistance from crime: Theoretical, empirical, methodological, and policy considerations. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23(1), 5-27.

Koenen, K.C., Caspi, Av., Moffitt, T.E., Rijsdijk, F. & Taylor, A. (2006). Genetic influences on the overlap between low IQ and antisocial behavior in young children. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(4), 787-797.

Loeber, R., Farrington, D.P. & Petechuk (2003). Child delinquency: Early intervention and Prevention. Child Delinquency Bulletin Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ 186162

Piquero, A., Moffitt, T.E., & Wright, B.E. (2007). Self-control and criminal career dimensions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23(1), 72-89.

Pogarsky, G., Piquero, A.R., & Paternoster, R. (2004). Modeling change in perceptions about sanction threats: The neglected linkage in deterrence theory. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20(4), 343-369.

Pratt, T. C. & Cullen, F.T. (2005). Assessing macro-level predictors and theories of crime: A meta-analysis. In M. Tonry (Ed), Crime and Justice: A Review of Research (pp. 373-450). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rafter, N. (2004). Earnest A. Hooton and the biological tradition in American criminology. Criminology, 42(3), 735-771.

Snyder, H.N., Espiritu, R.C., Huizinga, D., Loeber, R., & Petechuck, D. (2003). Prevalence and development of child delinquency. Child Delinquency Bulletin Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ 193411

Unnever, J. D., Cullen, F. T. & Fisher, B. S. (2007). “A liberal is someone who has not been mugged”: Criminal victimization and political beliefs. Justice Quarterly, 24(2), 309-334.

Wasserman, G.A., Keenan, K., Tremblay, R.E., Cole, J.D., Herrenkohl, T.I., Loeber, R., & Petechuk, D. (2003). Risk and protective factors of child delinquency. Child Delinquency Bulletin Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ 193409

Research Methods

Hagan, Frank E. (2006). Research methods in criminal justice and criminology, 7th edition. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon/Pearson Publishing. ISBN:0-205-44739-2

Maxfield, M.G. & Babbie, E. (2005). Research methods for criminal justice and criminology, 4th edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN: 0-534-61560-0

Any research methods text.

Law & Social Control

Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) (Paperback)

by Lawrence M. Friedman 224 pages, Modern Library; Reprint edition (October 12, 2004) ISBN-10: 0812972856 ISBN-13: 978-0812972856

The Law and Society Reader: Readings on the Social Study of Law (Paperback)

by Lawrence Meir Friedman (Editor), Stewart MacAulay (Editor), John A. Stookey (Editor) 912 pages, W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Ed edition (September 1995)

ISBN-10: 0393967131 ISBN-13: 978-0393967135

The Social Context of Law (2nd Edition) (Paperback) by Sheryl J. Grana, Jane C. Ollenburger, Mark Nicholas, 224 pages, Prentice Hall; 2 edition (September 28, 2001), ISBN-10: 0130413747 ISBN-13: 978-0130413741

Understanding Criminal Law (Paperback) by MACROBUTTON HtmlResAnchor Joshua Dressler , LexisNexis; 4th edition (March 2006) ISBN-10: 082057001X ISBN-13: 978-0820570013

LexisNexis Criminal Law Outline - MACROBUTTON HtmlResAnchor

Principles of Criminal Law (Concise Hornbook Series) (Paperback) 737 pages, Publisher: West Group Publishing; Concise edition (June 2003) ÿ ISBN-10: 0314146504 ÿ ISBN-13: 978-0314146502

Law Enforcement

Trojanowicz, Robert et al. (2002). Community Policing: A Contemporary Prospective. Third edition. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co.

Dunham, Roger U. and Geoffrey P. Albert. (2001). Critical Issues In Policing. Fourth edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Bayley, D. H. 1994. Police For the Future. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bittner, E. 1967a. "The Policeman on Skid-Row: A Study in Peacekeeping.” American Sociological Review 32: 699-715.

----------. 1967b. "Police Discretion in Emergency Apprehension of Mentally Ill Persons." Social Problems 14: 278-292.

------------.1978. "The Functions of the Police in Modern Society." Pp. 32-50 in Policing: A View from the Street. Edited by J. Van Maanen and P. K. Manning. Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing.

Black, D. 1980. The Manners and Customs of the Police. New York: Academic Press.

Cummings, E., Cummings, I., and L. Edell. 1965. “The Policeman as Philosopher, Guide, and Friend.” Social Problems 12(3): 276-286.

Herbert, S. 1996a. Policing Space: Territoriality and the LAPD. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Goldstein, H. 1990. Problem-Oriented Policing. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing.

Klinger, D. 1994. "Demeanor or Crime? Why 'Hostile' Citizens are More Likely to be Arrested." Criminology 32(3): 475-493.

Meares, T. L., and Kahan, D. M. 1999. Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Muir, W. K. 1977. Police: Street Corner Politicians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Niederhoffer, A. 1967. Behind the Shield: The Police in Urban Society. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Reiss, A. 1971. The Police and the Public. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Rubinstein, J. 1973. City Police. New York: Doubleday.

Sacks, H. 1978. “Notes on Police Assessment of Moral Character” pp. 187-202 in Policing: A View From the Street. Edited by J. Van Maanen and P. K. Manning. Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing.

Sherman, L. W. 1980. "Causes of Police Behavior: The Current State of Quantitative Research." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 17: 69-100.

Sherman, L., and Berk, R. 1984. “The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault.” American Sociological Review 49: 261-272.

Van Maanen, J. 1978a. “The Asshole.” Pp. 221-238 in Policing: A View From the Street. Edited by J. V. Maanen and P. K. Manning. Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing.

Websdale, Neil. 2001. Policing the Poor. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Westley, W. 1953. "Violence and the Police." American Journal of Sociology 49(1): 34-41.

Correctional Treatment

Andrews, D.A, Bonta, J. (2006). The Psychology of Criminal Conduct. 4th edition Cincinnati:

Nexus-Lexus.

Brook, D., Spitz, H. (2002). The Group Therapy of Substance Abuse. New York: Haworth

Press.

Corey, G. (2008). Theory and Practice of Group Counseling. 7th edition Belmont:

Thompson

Gorman, K, Gregory, M., Hayles, M., Parton, N. (Ed.) (2006). Constructive Work with

Offenders. London: Jessica Kingsley Press.

Maruna, S., Immarigeon, R (Ed) (2004). After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration. Portland: Willian Publishing

McMurran, Mary (Ed.) (2002). Motivating Offenders to Change: A Guide to Enhancing

Engagement in Therapy. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons LTD.

Van Voorhis, P. Braswell, M., Lester, D. (Ed.) (2008). Correctional Counseling and

Rehabilitation 6th edition. Cincinnati: Nexus-Lexus.

Yalom, I., Leszcz, M. (2005). The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy 5th edition

New York: Basic Books

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