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THEORYBooksLilly, J. Robert; Cullen, Francis T. & Ball, Richard A. (2011). Criminological Theory, 5th Edition. Jacoby, J.; Severance, T.A.; Bruce, A.S. (2012). Classics of Criminology, 4th Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland PressCullen, Francis & Agnew, Robert (2011) Criminological Theory: Past to Present. Essential Reading. Oxford University Press.ArticlesGottfredson, M. (1981). On the etiology of criminal victimization. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 72, 714-726.Messner, S.F. & Tardiff, K. (1985). The social ecology of urban homicide. An application of “routine activites” approach. Criminology, 23, 241-267.Sampson, R.J., Raudenbush, S.W. & Earls, F. (1997). A neighborhood and violent crime: Amultilevel study of collective efficacy. Science, 277 (August 15), 916-924.Pratt, T.C., & Cullen, F.T. (2000). The empirical status of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime: A meta-analysis. Criminology, 38, 931-964. Agnew, R. (2001). Building on the foundation of general strain theory: Specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 38(4), 319-361.Merton, R.K. (1938). Social structure and anomie. American Sociological Review, 3, 672-682. Matsueda, R.L. (1988). The current state of differential association theory. Crime andDelinquency, 34, 277-306.Bohm, R.M. (1982). Radical criminology: An explication: Criminology, 19(4), 565-589).Schwendinger, H. & Schwendiger, J. (1977). Social class and definitions of crime. Crime and Social Justice, 7, 4-13.Daly, K., & Chesney-Lind, M. (1988). Feminism and criminology. Justice Quarterly, 5(4), 497-538.Blumstein, A., Cohen, J. & Farrington, D.P. (1988). Criminal career research: Its value for criminology. Criminology, 26, 1-35.METHODSRole of Research and Theory Merton, Robert K. 1948. “The Bearing of Empirical Research upon the Development ofSocial Theory.” American Sociological Association 13:505-515.Uggen, Christopher and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. “Public Criminologies.” Criminology& Public Policy 9:725-749. Blumer, Herbert. 1954. “What is Wrong with Social Theory?” American SociologicalReview19:3-10.Loader, Ian and Richard Sparks. 2010. “What is to be done with Public Criminology?”Criminology & Public Policy 9:771-781.MacCoun, Robert J. 1998. “Biases in the Interpretation and Use of Research Results.”AnnualReview of Psychology 49:259-287.Sources of DataMosher, C. J., Miethe, T. D., & Hart, T. C. (2010).?The mismeasure of crime. Sage.Elliott and Ageton. 1980. “Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported andOfficial Estimates of Delinquency.” American Sociological Review 45:95-110.Hindelang, Hirschi, and Weis. 1979. “Correlates of Delinquency: The Illusion ofDiscrepancy between Self-Report and Official Measures.” American SociologicalReview 44:995-1014.Maxfield, Weiler, and Widom. 2000. “Comparing Self-Reports and Official Records ofArrests.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16:87-110.MeasurementAbbott, Andrew. 1997. “Seven Types of Ambiguity.” Theory and Society 26:357-391.Blalock Jr., H. M. 1979. “Measurement and Conceptualization Problems: The MajorObstacles to Integrating Theory and Research.” American Sociological Review44:881-894.Bushway, Shawn, Brian D. Johnson, and Lee Ann Slocum. 2007. “Is the Magic Still There? The Use of the Heckman Two-Step Correction for Selection Bias in Criminology.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23:151-178.Leahey, Erin. 2005. “Alphas and Asterisks: The Development of Statistical SignificanceTesting Standards in Sociology.” Social Forces 84:1-24.Paternoster, Raymond, Shawn Bushway, Robert Brame, and Robert Apel. 2003. “TheEffect of Teenage Employment on Delinquency and Problem Behaviors.” Social Forces82:297-335.Longshore, Douglas, Judith A. Stein, and Susan Turner. 1998. “Reliability and Validityof a Self-Control Measure: Rejoinder.” Criminology 36:175-182.Longshore, Douglas, Susan Turner, and Judith A. Stein. 1996. “Self-Control in aCriminal Sample: An Examination of Construct Validity.” Criminology 34:209-228.Piquero, Alex R. and Andre B. Rosay. 1998. “The Reliability and Validity of Grasmick etal.’s Self-Control Scale: A Comment on Longshore et al.” Criminology 36:157-173.Sampling/Data IssuesRobinson, W. (1950). Ecological correlations and the behaviors of individuals. American Sociological Review, 15, 351-357.Berk, R.A. & Ray, S.C. (1982). Selection biases in sociological data. Social Science Research, 11(4), 352-398.Maltz, M. (1994). Deviating from the mean: The declining significance of significance. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 31(4), 434-463.Bushway, S., Sweeten, G., & Wilson, D. (2006). Size matters: Standard errors in the application of null hypothesis significance testing in criminology and criminal justice: Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2(1), 1-22. Abraham, Katharine G., Sara Helms, and Stanley Presser. 2009. “How Social ProcessesDistortMeasurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates ofVolunteer Work in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 114:1129-65.Berk, Richard A. 1983. “An Introduction to Sample Selection Bias in Sociological Data.”American Sociological Review 48:386-398.Heimer, Karen, Janet L. Lauritsen, and James P. Lynch. 2009. “The National CrimeVictimization Survey and the Gender Gap in Offending: Redux.” Criminology47:427-438.Lauritsen, Janet L., Karen Heimer, and James P. Lynch. 2009. “Trends in the Gender Gapin Violent Offending: New Evidence from the National Crime VictimizationSurvey.” Criminology 47:361-399.Schwartz, Jennifer, Darrell Steffensmeier, Hua Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman. 2009. “Trendsin the Gender Gap in Violence: Reevaluating NCVS and Other Evidence.”Criminology 47:401-425.Van Poppel, Frans and Lincoln H. Day. 1996. “A Test of Durkheim’s Theory ofSuicide—Without Committing the ‘Ecological Fallacy.’” American Sociological Review 61:500-507.Research Design and MethodsGoddfredson, M. & Hirschi, T. (1987). The methodological adequacy of longitudinal research on crime. Criminology, 25(3), 581-614.Loftin, C. & McDowall, D. (1988). The analysis of case-control studies in criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 4(1), 85-98.Menard, S. & Elliot, D.S. (1990). Longitudinal and cross-sectional data collection and analysis in the study of crime and delinquency. Justice Quarterly, 7(1), 11-55. Britt, C., Kleck, G., & Bordua, D. (1996). A reassessment of the D.C. gun law: Some cautionary notes on the use of interrupted time series designs for policy impact assessment. Law & Society Review, 30(2), 361-380.Junger-Tas, J. & Marshall, I.H. (1999). The self-report methodology in crime research. Crimeand Justice, 25, 291-367. Fowler, F.J. (2001). Survey research methods (3rd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.Yin, R. (2002). Case study research: Design and Methods (3rd ed.). Applied Social Research Methods Series, Vol 5. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Tashakkari, A. & Teddlie, C. (1998). Mixed methodology: Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Bachman, R. & Paternoster R. (2009). Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice. 3rd edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Nardi, P.M. (2006). Interpreting Data: A Guide to Understanding Research. Boston, MA: Pearson Education. Williams, F. P. (2009). Statistical Concepts for Criminal Justice and Criminology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Experimentation and Experimental DesignFarrington, David P. 2003. “A Short History of Randomized Experiments inCriminology: A Meager Feast.” Evaluation Review 27:218-227.Nagin, Daniel S. and Greg Pogarsky. 2003. “An Experimental Investigation ofDeterrence: Cheating, Self-Serving Bias, and Impulsivity.” Criminology 41: 167-193.Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology108:937-75.Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. “Discrimination in a LowWage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” American Sociological Review 74:777-799.Sampson, Robert J. 2010. “Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turnin Quantitative Criminology.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26:489-500.Sherman, Lawrence W. 2009. “Evidence and Liberty: The Promise of ExperimentalCriminology.” Criminology & Criminal Justice 9:5-28.Steffensmeier, Darrell J. and Robert M. Terry. 1973. “Deviance and Respectability: AnObservational Study of Reactions to Shoplifting.” Social Forces 51:417-426.Survey Research and InstrumentationCouper, Mick P. 2000. “Web Surveys: A Review of Issues and Approaches.” PublicOpinion Quarterly 64:464-494.Dillman, Don A. 1991. “The Design and Administration of Mail Surveys.” Annual Review of Sociology 17:225-249.Gottfredson, Michael and Travis Hirschi. 1987. “The Methodological Adequacy ofLongitudinal Research on Crime.” Criminology 25:581-614.Groves, Robert M. 1990. “Theories and Methods of Telephone Surveys.” Annual Reviewof Sociology 16:221-240.Hart, Timothy C., Callie Marie Rennison, and Chris Gibson. 2005. “RevisitingRespondent ‘Fatigue Bias’ in the National Crime Victimization Survey.” Journalof Quantitative Criminology 21:345-363.Jang, Sung Joon. 1999. “Different Definitions, Different Modeling Decisions, andDifferent Interpretations: A Rejoinder to Lauritsen.” Criminology 37:695-702.Lauritsen, Janet L. 1998. “The Age-Crime Debate: Assessing the Limits of LongitudinalSelf Report Data.” Social Forces 77:127-154.Lauritsen, Janet L. 1999. “Limitations in the Use of Longitudinal Self-Report Data: AComment.” Criminology 37:687-694.Schaeffer, Nora Cate and Stanley Presser. 2003. “The Science of Asking Questions.”AnnualReview of Sociology 29:65-88.Thornberry, T. P., and Miles B. Bjerregaardes. 1993. “The Consequences of RespondentAttrition in Panel Studies: A Simulation based on the Rochester Youth Development Study.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9, 32p.Field Research and Available DataAdler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2003. “The Promise and Pitfalls of Going Into theField.”Contexts 2:41-47.Anderson, Elijah. 1998. “The Social Ecology of Youth Violence.” Crime and Justice 24:65-104.Gerstenfeld, Phyllis b., Diana R. Grant, and Chau-Pu Chiang. 2003. “Hate Online: AContent Analysis of Extremist Internet Sites.” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 3:29-44.Tewksbury, Richard, Dean A. Dabney, and Heith Copes. 2010. “The Prominence ofQualitative Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholarship.” Journalof Criminal Justice Education 21:391-411.Multiple Methods and Program EvaluationMacKenzie, Doris Layton, David B. Wilson, and Suzane b. Kider. 2001. “Effects of BootCampson Offending.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and SocialScience 578:126-143.Petrosino, Anthony, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, and James O. Finckenauer. 2000. “WellMeaning Programs Can Have Harmful Effects! Lessons from Experiments ofPrograms Such as Scared Straight.” Crime & Delinquency 46:354-379.Pratt, Travis C. and Francis T. Cullen. 2000. “The Empirical Status of Gottfredson andHirschi’s General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis.” Criminology 38:931-964.GENERALETHICSBraswell, M.C., McCarthy, B.R., & McCarthy, B.J. (2007). Justice, Crime and Ethics. 7th edition. Burlington, MA: Elsevier, Inc. Pollock, J.M. (2014). Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice, 8th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Babbie, E. (2004). Laud Humphreys and research ethics. The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 24: 12-19. DeMatteo, D., Filone, S. & LaDike, C. (2011). Methodological, Ethical and Legal Considerations in Drug Court Research. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 29: 806-820. Duval, G. & Salmon, C. (2004). Research Note: Ethics of Drug Treatment Research with Court-Supervised Subjects. Journal of Drug Uses, 34: 991-1005.Fekkenes, G. T. (1984). Attitudes of police officers toward their professional ethics. Journal of Criminal Justice, 12: 211-230. Glaser, B. (2009). Treaters or punishers? The ethical role of mental health clinicians in sex offender programs. Aggression and Behavior, 14: 248-255. Hanson, R.K., Letourneau, E.J., Olver, M.E., Wilson, R.J. & Miner, M.H. (2012). Incentives for offender research participation are both ethical and practical. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 39: 1391-1404. Joh, E.E. (2009). Breaking the law to enforce it: Undercover police participation in crime. Stanford Law Review, 62: 155-198. Miller, J.L. & Sloan, J.J. (1994). A study of criminal justice discretion. Journal of Criminal Justice, 22(2): 107-123. Seddon, T. (2007). Coerced drug treatment in the criminal justice system. Criminology and & Criminal Justice, 7: 269-286. Ward, T. & Birgden, A. (2009). Accountability and dignity: Ethical issues in forensic and correctional practice. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 14: 227-231.Ward, T. & Salmon, K. (2009). The ethics of punishment: Correctional practice implications. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 14: 239-347. Warwick, D.P. (1973). Tearoom trade: Means and ends in social research. The Hastings Center Studies, 1: 27-38. Westmarland, L. (2005). Police ethics and integrity: breaking the blue code of silence. Policing & Society, 15: 145-165. Westmarland, L. (2013). Snitches get stiches: US homicide detectives’ ethics and morals in action. Policing & Society, 23: 311-327. AgeBlumstein, A., Cohen, J., & Farrington, D. P. 1988. “Criminal Career Research: Its Valuefor Criminology.” Criminology 26(1):1-35.Bosick, Stacey J. 2009. "Operationalizing Crime Over the Life Course." Crime &Delinquency 55(3):472-496.Brame, Robert, and Alex R. Piquero. 2003. "Selective Attrition and the Age-CrimeRelationship." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19(2):107.Gottfredson, & Hirschi. 1986. “The True Value of Lambda Would Appear to be Zero: AnEssay on Career Criminals, Criminal Careers, Selective Incapacitation, CohortStudies, and Related Topics.” Criminology 24:213-34.Hirschi, Travis and Michael R. Gottfredson. 1983. “Age and the Explanation of Crime.”American Journal of Sociology 89:552–84.Hirschi, Travis and Michael R. Gottfredson. 1995. “Control Theory and the Life CoursePerspective.” Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention 4:131-42.Nagin, D. S., & Tremblay, R. E. 2005. “What has been Learned from Group-BasedTrajectory Modeling? Examples from Physical Aggression and Other ProblemBehaviors.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science602(November):82-117.Osgood, D. Wayne. 2005. “Making Sense of Crime and the Life Course.” Annals of theAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science 602:196–211.Petras, Hanno, Paul Nieuwbeerta, and Alex R. Piquero. 2010. "Participation andFrequency during Criminal Careers across the Life Span." Criminology48(2):607-637.Rowe, D., Osgood, W., & Nicewander. 1990. “A Latent Trait Approach to UnifyingCriminal Careers.” Criminology 28:237-70.Steffensmeier, D. J., Allan, E. A., Harer, M. D., & Streifel, C. 1989. “Age and theDistribution of Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 94(4):803-831.Stolzenberg, L., & D'Alessio, S. 2008. “Co-Offending and the Age-Crime Curve.”Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency 45(1):65-86.Tittle, Charles R., and Harold G. Grasmick. 1998. “Criminal Behavior and Age: A Testof Three Provocative Hypotheses.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88:309–42.Warr, Mark. 1993. “Age, Peers, and Delinquency.” Criminology 31:17–40.GenderHeimer, Karen, and Stacy De Coster. 1999. "The Gendering of Violent Delinquency."Criminology 37(2):277-317.Heimer, Karen, Janet L. Lauritsen, and James P. Lynch. 2009. "The National CrimeVictimization Survey and the Gender Gap in Offending: Redux." Criminology47(2):427-438.Kruttschnitt, C. 1996. “Contributions of Quantitative Methods to the Study of Gender andCrime, or Bootstrapping our way into the Theoretical Thicket.” Journal ofQuantitative Criminology 12, 27p.Lauritsen, Janet L., and Karen Heimer. 2008. "The Gender Gap in Violent Victimization,1973–2004." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 24(2):125-147.Lauritsen, Janet L., Karen Heimer, and James P. Lynch. 2009. "Trends in the Gender Gapin Violent Offending: New Evidence from the National Crime VictimizationSurvey." Criminology 47(2):361-399.Mack, Kristin Y., and Michael J. Leiber. 2005. "Race, Gender, Single-MotherHouseholds, and Delinquency: A Further Test of Power-Control Theory." Youth& Society 37(2):115-144.Merolla, David. 2008. "The War on Drugs and the Gender Gap in Arrests: A CriticalPerspective." Critical Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 34(2):255-270.O'Brien, Robert M. 1999. "Measuring the Convergence/Divergence of “Serious Crime”Arrest Rates for Males and Females: 1960–1995." Journal of QuantitativeCriminology 15(1):97.Schwartz, Jennifer, and Bryan D. Rookey. 2008. "The Narrowing Gender Gap in Arrests:Assessing Competing Explanations Using Self-Report, Traffic Fatality, andOfficial Data on Drunk Driving, 1980–2004." Criminology 46(3):637-671.Schwartz, Jennifer, Darrell Steffensmeier, Hua Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman. 2009. "Trendsin the Gender Gap in Violence: Reevaluating NCVS and Other Evidence."Criminology 47(2):401-425.Steffensmeier, Darrell, Jennifer Schwartz, Hua Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman. 2005. "AnAssessment of Recent Trends in Girls’ Violence using Diverse LongitudinalSources: Is the Gender Gap Closing?" Criminology 43(2):355-406. Steffensmeier, Darrell, Hua Zhong, Jeff Ackerman, Jennifer Schwartz, and Suzanne Agha. 2006. “Gender Gap Trends for Violent Crimes, 1980 to 2003.” FeministCriminology 1:72-98.Thompson, Melissa, and Milena Petrovic. 2009. "Gendered Transitions: Within PersonChanges in Employment, Family, and Illicit Drug Use." Journal of Research inCrime & Delinquency 46(3):377-408.SESAgnew, Robert, Shelley Keith Matthews, Jacob Bucher, Adria N. Welcher, and CoreyKeyes. 2008. "Socioeconomic Status, Economic Problems, and Delinquency."Youth & Society 40(2):159-181.Braithwaite, Johne. 1981. "The Myth of Social Class and Criminality Reconsidered."American Sociological Review 46(1):36-57.Coleman, James W. 2006. The Criminal Elite: Understanding White-Collar Crime (6th ed.). New York: Worth.Dunaway, R. Gregory, Francis T. Cullen, Velmer S. Burton Jr., and T. David Evans. 2000. "The Myth of Social Class and Crime Revisited: An Examination of Class and Adult Criminality." Criminology 38(2):589-632.Farnworth, Margaret, Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, and Alan J. Lizotte. 1994. "Measurement in the Study of Class and Delinquency: Integrating Theory and Research." Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency 31(1):32-61.Hay, Carter, Edward N. Fortson, Dusten R. Hollist, Irshad Altheimer, and Lonnie M.Schaible. 2007. "Compounded Risk: The Implications for Delinquency of Comingfrom a Poor Family that Lives in a Poor Community." Journal of Youth &Adolescence 36(5):593-605.Jarjoura, G. Roger, Ruth A. Triplett, and Gregory P. Brinker. 2002. "Growing Up Poor:Examining the Link Between Persistent Childhood Poverty and Delinquency."Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18(2):159-187.Piquero, Nicole Leeper, and Alex R. Piquero. 2006. "Control Balance and ExploitativeCorporate Crime." Criminology 44(2):397-430.Shover, Neal. 1996. Great Pretenders: Pursuits and Careers of Persistent Thieves.Boulder, CO: Westview.Sutherland, Edwin H. 1940. "White-Collar Criminality." AmericanSociological Review5(1):1-12.Tittle, Charles R., Wayne J. Villemez, and Douglas A. Smith. 1978. "The Myth of SocialClass and Criminality: An Empirical Assessment of the Empirical Evidence."American Sociological Review 43(5):643-656.Tittle, Charles R., and Robert F. Meier. 1991. "Specifying the SES/DelinquencyRelationship by Social Characteristics of Context." Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency 28(4):430-455.Wright, Bradley R. Entner, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richard A. Miech, and Phil A. Silva. 1999. "Reconsidering the Relationship Between SES andDelinquency: Causation but not Correlation." Criminology 37(1):175-194.Race and EthnicityAlpert, Geoffrey P., Roger D. Dunham, and Michael R. Smith. 2007. “InvestigatingRacial Profiling by the Miami-Dade Police Department: A Multi-method Approach.” Criminology and Public Policy 6(1):25-55.Bontrager, Stephanie, William Bales, and Ted Chiricos. 2005. "Race, Ethnicity, Threatand the Labeling of Convicted Felons." Criminology 43(3):589-622.Demuth, Stephen. 2003. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Pretrial Release Decisions andOutcomes: A Comparison of Hispanic, Black, and White Felony Arrestees."Criminology 41(3):873-907.Felson, Richard B., Glenn Deane, and David P. Armstrong. 2008. "Do Theories of Crimeor Violence Explain Race Differences in Delinquency?" Social Science Research37(2):624-641.Higgins, George E., Gennaro F. Vito, and William F. Walsh. 2008. “Searches: AnUnderstudied Area of Racial Profiling.” Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice6(1):23-39.Huebner, Beth M., and Timothy S. Bynum. 2008. "The Role of Race and Ethnicity inParole Decisions." Criminology 46(4):907-938.Johnson, Brian D. 2003. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Departures AcrossModes of Conviction." Criminology 41(2):449-489.Kerley, Kent R., Michael L. Benson, Mathew R. Lee, and Francis T. 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