Below is a list of courses in which these other theories and perspectives are covered.

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1 CCJS 654 History of Criminological Thought Fall 2012 Professor Ray Paternoster 2229 Lefrak Hall (301) Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course, there will be detailed coverage of the elements and foundations of scientific theory, most sociological and/or socialpsychological theories of crime, and recent developments in criminological theory. The course will not cover biological or economic theories of crime, feminist or critical race perspectives since these theoretical approaches are emphasized in other courses offered in the graduate curriculum. Below is a list of courses in which these other theories and perspectives are covered. Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJS 657) Crime in the Life Course (CCJS 699J) Drugs and Crime (CCJS 680) Gender and Crime (CCJS 660) Labor Markets and Crime (CCJS 699B) Psychology of Crime and Justice (CCJS 699P) Race and Crime (CCJS 670) Course Prerequisites It is assumed that students will have taken Introduction to Criminology (CCJS 651) or a comparable MA-level course in criminological theory. Course Grading There will be two essay examinations in this course. The first examination is on October 18 th and 23 rd (two days) and the second is on December 6 th and 11 th (again, two days). Each exam will cover only new material and each will count 50% toward your final course grade. The two exams must be taken on the assigned day, so plan accordingly. If there are circumstances that preclude you from taking the exam on that day I must be notified in advance. Readings There are required readings for each week of the class. In addition to this required reading every student will be assigned additional readings. These additional readings will be the focus of class discussion and the student responsible for that reading will be expected to do two things: (1) have a typed review of their reading, and (2) lead the

2 class discussion and engage me in an exploration/criticism of the reading. If you are given this additional reading you must have it read and prepared for the assigned class. Students will be expected to know this material for the examination. In addition to this, the syllabus will provide a more extensive collection of readings that serious students of criminological theory will want to read. COURSE SCHEDULE AND READING LIST August 30 th & September 4th Theory: The Components of Theory, Theory Testing and Theoretical Development Required Readings Take your pick, but one (1) of these is required. Other Required Readings Walter Wallace The Logic of Science in Sociology Paul D. Reyonlds A Primer in Theory Construction Techniques and Problems of Theory Construction in Sociology Jerald Hage On Theory and Verification in Sociology Hans Zetterberg Ellis, Desmond 1971 The Hobbesian Problem of Order: A Critical Appraisal of the Normative Solution. American Sociological Review. 36: Bernard, Thomas J. and Jeffrey B. Snipes 1996 Theoretical Integration in Criminology. In Crime and Justice, Volume 20. Edited by Michael Tonry. Steven F. Messner, Marvin D. Krohn, and Allen E. Liska 1989 Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime. Albany: State University of New York Press. Preface, Chs. 2,3,10 King, Gary 1995 Replication, Replication. Paper available online at: gking.harvard.edu/files/replication.pdf 2

3 Lehrer, Jonah 2010 The Truth Wears Off. Article in the December 13, 2010 issue of the New Yorker. Available online at Ioannidias, John P.A Why Most Published Research Findings are False. PLoS Medicine. Available online at: Locke, John 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book 1. Descartes, Rene 1637 Discourse on the Method. Part 2. 3

4 September 9 th and 11 th Criminological Theory: Classical vs. Positive School and A Timeline of Criminological Theory Required Readings Beccaria, Cesare 1764 [1985) Essay on Crimes and Punishment. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Matza, David 1969 Becoming Deviant. Englewood Cliffs: NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 1. Beirne, Piers 1987 Adolphe Quetelet and The Origin of Positivist Criminology American Journal of Sociology 92: Rafter, Nicole 1992 Criminal anthropology in the United States. Criminology 30: Earnest A. Hooton and the Biological Tradition in American Criminology. Criminology 42: The Unrepentant Horse-slasher: Moral Insanity and the Origins of Criminological Thought. Criminology 42 (4) (Nov. 2004): The Murderous Dutch Fiddler: Criminology, History, and the Problem of Phrenology. Theoretical Criminology 9 (1): Somatotyping, Antimodernism, and the Production of Criminological Knowledge. Criminology 45: Lindesmith, Alfred and Yale Levin 1937 The Lombrosian Myth in Criminology. The American Journal of Sociology 42: Read at least One (1) of the following dialogs of Plato: Meno Charmides The Apology The Euthyphro The Crito Phaedo Optional, but read sometime in your graduate career 4

5 Hobbes, Thomas 1651 [1962] Leviathan. New York: Macmillan. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1762 [1968] The Social Contract & Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. New York: Penguin. Locke, John 1690 The Second Treatise of Civil Government. 5

6 September 13 th and 18 th Deterrence Theory Gibbs, Jack 1968 Crime, Punishment, and Deterrence. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48: Tittle, Charles 1969 Crime Rates and Legal Sanctions. Social Problems 16: Chiricos, Theodore G. and Gordon P. Waldo 1970 Punishment and crime: An examination of some empirical evidence. Social Problems 18: Waldo, Gordon P. and Theodore G. Chiricos 1972 Perceived penal sanction and self-reported criminality: A neglected approach to deterrence research. Social Problems 19: Logan, Charles H Arrest rates and deterrence. Social Science Quarterly 56: Geerken, Michael R. and Walter R. Gove 1977 Deterrence: Some theoretical considerations. Law and Society Review 9: Erickson, Maynard, Jack P. Gibbs, and Gary F. Jensen 1977 The deterrence doctrine and the perceived certainty of legal punishments. American Sociological Review 42: Jensen, Gary F., Jack P. Gibbs, and Maynard Erickson 1978 Perceived risk of punishment and self-reported delinquency. Social Forces 57: Saltzman, Linda, Raymond Paternoster, Gordon P. Waldo and Theodore G. Chiricos 1982 Deterrent and experiential effects. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 19: Paternoster, Raymond, Linda E. Saltzman, Gordon P. Waldo, and Theodore G. Chiricos 1983 Perceived risk and social control. Law and Society Review 17: Nagin, Daniel and Raymond Paternoster 1994 Personal capital and social control: The deterrence implications of a theory of individual differences in criminal offending. Criminology 32: Loewenstein, George, Daniel Nagin and Ray Paternoster 1997 The effect of sexual arousal on expectations of sexual forcefulness. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 34:

7 Pogarsky, Greg 2002 Identifying deterrable offenders: Implications for research on deterrence. Justice Quarterly 19: Pogarsky, Greg and Alex Piquero 2003 Can punishment encourage offending?: Investigating the resetting effect. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40: Loughran, Thomas A., Greg Pogarsky, Alex R. Piquero, and Ray Paternoster Reexamining the functional form of the deterrence effect in deterrence theory. Justice Quarterly (forthcoming). Loughran, Thomas A.,Ray Paternoster, Greg Pogarsky, and Alex R. Piquero 2010 On Ambiguity in Perceptions of Risk: Implications for Criminal Decision Making and Deterrence. Criminology 49: Reviews of the Deterrence Literature Paternoster, Raymond 1987 The deterrent effect of the perceived certainty and severity of punishment. Justice Quarterly 4: Nagin, Daniel S Criminal deterrence research at the outset of the twenty-first century. Pp in Michael Tonry (ed.), Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 23. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 13 of Taking Stock. 7

8 September 20 th and 25 th Rational Choice and Routine Activities Theory Felson, Marcus 2002 Crime and Everyday Life (3 rd Edition). Cornish, Derek B., and Ronald V. Clarke 1986 The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending. New York: Springer-Verlag. Cohen, Lawrence E. and Marcus Felson 1979 Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activities approach. American Sociological Review 44: Cohen, Lawrence E., Kenneth, James R. Kluegel and Kenneth C. Land 1981 Social inequality and predatory criminal victimization: An exposition and test of a formal theory. American Sociological Review 1981: Miethe, Terance D., Mark C. Stafford, and J. Scott Long 1987 Social differentiation in criminal victimization: A test of routine activities/lifestyle theories. American Sociological Review 52: Osgood, D. Wayne, Janet K. Wilson, Patrick O Malley, Jerald Bachman, and Lloyed Johnston 1996 Routine activities and individual deviant behavior. American Sociological Review 61: Osgood, D. Wayne and Amy L. Anderson 2004 Unstructured socializing and rates of delinquency. Criminology 42: Bachman, Ronet, Ray Paternoster and Sally Ward 1992 The rationality of sexual offending: testing a deterrence/rational choice conception of sexual assault. Law and Society Review 26: Nagin, Daniel and Raymond Paternoster 1994 Enduring individual differences and rational choice theories of crime. Law & Society Review 27:

9 September 27 th and October 2 nd Social Disorganization Theory Park, Robert E Human ecology. American Journal of Sociology 42: Succession, an ecological concept. American Sociological Review 1: Shaw, Clifford and Henry McKay 1972 Delinquency and Urban Areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Shaw, Clifford 1930 The Jack Roller: A Delinquent Boy s Own Story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ogburn, William 1935 Factors in the variation of crime among cities. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 30: Bursik, Robert Jr., and Harold Grasmick 1993 Neighborhoods and Crime. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. Skogan, Wesley G Disorder and Decline. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Bursik, Robert J Social disorganization and theories of crime and delinquency: problems and prospects." Criminology 26: The informal control of crime through neighborhood networks. Sociological Focus 32: Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush and Felton Earls 1997 Neighborhoods and violent crime. Science 277: Bellair Paul E Social interaction and community crime: Examining the importance of neighborhood networks. Criminology 35: Informal surveillance and street crime: A complex relationship. Criminology 38:

10 Morenoff, Jeffrey D., Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen W. Raudenbush 2001 Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy and the spatial dynamics of urban homicide. Criminology 39: Sampson, Robert and W. Byron Groves 1989 Community structure and crime: Testing social disorganization theory. American Journal of Sociology 94:774. Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley 2002, Assessing neighborhood effects : Social processes and new directions in research. Annual Review of Sociology 28. Charis E. Kubrin and Roland Weitzer 2003 New directions in social disorganization research. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40: Silver, Eric and Lisa L. Miller 2004 Sources of informal social control in Chicago neighborhoods. Criminology 42: Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Francis T. Cullen and Travis C. Pratt 2003 Replicating Sampson and Grove s test of social disorganization theory: Revisiting a criminological classic. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40: Bellair, Paul E. and Christopher R. Browning 2010 Contemporary disorganization research: An assessment and further test of the systemic model of neighborhood crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 47: Chapter 5 of Taking Stock. 10

11 October 4 th and 9 th Social Control Theory Reiss, Albert J Delinquency as the failure of personal and social controls. American Sociological Review 25: Toby, Jackson 1957 Social Disorganization and Stake in Conformity: Complementary Factors in the Predatory Behavior of Hoodlums. Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 48: Briar, Scott and Irving Piliavin 1965 Delinquency, situational inducements, and commitment to conformity. Social Problems 13: Hirschi, Travis 1969 Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Hindelang, Michael J Causes of delinquency: A partial replication and extension. Social Problems 20: Agnew, Robert 1985 social control theory and delinquency: A longitudinal test. Criminology 23: Agnew, Robert 1991 A longitudinal test of social control theory and delinquency. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 28: Kempf, Kimberly L The empirical status of hirschi s control Theory. Pp in Freda Alder and William S. Laufer, eds, New Directions in Criminological Theory: Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 4. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. Krohn, Marvin D. and James L. Massey 1980 Social control and delinquent behavior: An examination of the elements of the social bond. Sociological Quarterly 21: Laub, John H. and Robert J. Sampson 1988 Unraveling families and delinquency: A reanalysis of the Gluecks' data. Criminology 26:

12 Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub 1993 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Understanding variability in lives through time: Contributions of lifecourse criminology. Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention 4: Life-course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70. Criminology 41: A general age-graded theory of crime: Lessons learned and the future of life-course criminology. Pp in David P. Farrington (ed.), Integrated Developmental and Life Course Theories of Offending. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction A life-course view of the development of crime. The Annals 602: c When prediction fails: From crime-prone boys to heterogeneity in adulthood. The Annals 602: Chapter 11 of Taking Stock Read Either one Freud book or Plato Freud Totem and Taboo Civilization and Its Discontents The Future of An Illusion The Ego and the Id Introductory Lectures on PsychoAnalysis Plato The Republic 12

13 October 11 th and 16 th Self-Control Theory Gottfredson, Michael and Travis Hirschi 1990 A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Evans, T. David, Francis T. Cullen, and Velmer S. Burton, Jr., R. Gregory Dunaway, and Michael L. Benson 1997 The social consequences of self-control: Testing the general theory of crime. Criminology 35: Grasmick, Harold G., Charles R. Tittle, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., and Bruce K. Arneklev 1993 Testing the core empirical implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi s general theory of crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30: Hirschi, Travis and Michael R. Gottfredson 1993 Commentary: Testing the General Theory of Crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30: Longshore, Douglas 1998 Self-control and criminal opportunity: A prospective test of the general theory of crime. Social Problems 45: Pratt, Travis C. and Francis T. Cullen 2000 The empirical status of Gottfredson and Hirschi s general theory of crime: A meta-analysis. Criminology 38: Taylor, Claire 2001 The relationship between social and self-control: Tracing Hirschi s criminological career. Theoretical Criminology 5: Burt, Callie Harbin, Ronald L. Simons, and Leslie G. Simons 2006 A longitudinal test of the effects of parenting and the stability of selfcontrol: Negative evidence for the general theory of crime. Criminology 44: Chapter 2 of Taking Stock 13

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15 October 25 th and 30 th Strain Theory Part I: Traditional Strain Theory Cohen, Albert 1955, Delinquent Boys. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Cloward Richard A. and Lloyd E. Ohlin 1960, Delinquency and Opportunity. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Merton, Robert 1968, Social Theory and Social Structure. Chapters VI and VII. New York: The Free Press. Farnworth, Margaret and Michael J. Lieber 1989 Strain theory revisited: economic goals, educational means, and delinquency." American Sociological Review 54: Burton, Velmer S. Jr., Francis T. Cullen, T. David Evans, and R. Gregory Dunaway 1994 Reconsidering strain theory: Operationalization, rival theories, and adult criminality. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 10:213 Cullen, Francis and Steven Messner 2007 The making of criminology revisited: An oral history of Merton s anomie paradigm. Theoretical Criminology 11:5-37. Baumer, Eric P Untangling research puzzles in Merton s multilevel anomie theory. Theoretical Criminology 11:

16 November 1 st and 6 th Strain Theory Part 2: General Strain Theory and Institutional Strain Theory Agnew, Robert 2006 Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory. Messner, Steven and Richard Rosenfeld 2001 Crime and the American Dream (3 rd Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Agnew, Robert and Helene White 1992 An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory. Criminology 30:475. Agnew, Robert 1991 Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency. Criminology 30: A general strain theory of community differences in crime rates. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 36: 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: Paternoster, Raymond and Paul Mazerolle 1994 General Strain Theory and Delinquency: A Replication and Extension. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 51: Brezina, Timothy 1996 Adapting to strain: An examination of delinquent coping responses. Criminology 34: Brezina, Timothy, Alex Piquero and Paul Mazerolle 2001 Student anger and aggressive behavior in School: An initial test of Agnew s macro-level strain theory. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 38: Baron, Stephen 2004 General strain, street youth and crime: A test of agnew s revised theory. Criminology 42: Slocum, Lee Ann, Sally S. Simpson and Douglas A. Smith 16

17 2005 Strained lives and crime: Examining intra-individual variation in strain and offending in a sample of incarcerated women. Criminology 43: Chamblin, Mitchell and John K. Cochran 1995 Assessing Messner and Rosenfeld s institutional anomie theory: A partial test. Criminology 33: Messner, Steven F. and Richard Rosenfeld 1997 Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide: A crossnational application of institutional anomie theory. Social Forces 75: Jensen, Gary 2002 Institutional anomie theory and societal variations in crime: A critical appraisal. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 22: Maume, Michael O, and Matthew R. Lee 2003 Social institutions and violence: A sub-national test of institutional anomie theory. Criminology 41: Chamblin, Mitchell and John K. Cochran 2007 An evaluation of the assumptions that underlie institutional anomie theory. Theoretical Criminology 11: Chapters 3 & 4 of Taking Stock 17

18 November 8 th and 13 th Differential Association Theory and Social Learning Theory Akers, Ronald 1998 Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Warr, Mark 2002 Companions in Crime. New York: Cambridge University Press. Akers, Ronald L., Marvin D. Krohn, Lonn Lanze-Kaduce, and Marcia Radoscevich 1979 Social learning and deviant behavior: A specific test of a general theory. American Sociological Review 44: Wood, Peter B., Walter R. Gove, James A. Wilson, and John K. Cochran 1997 Nonsocial reinforcement and habitual criminal conduct: An extension of learning theory. Criminology 35: Laub, John H Edwin H. Sutherland and the Michael-Adler report: Searching for the soul of criminology seventy years later. Criminology 44: Krohn, Marvin 1999 Social learning theory. Theoretical Criminology 3: Matsueda, Ross L. and Karen Heimer 1987 Race, family structure, and delinquency: A test of differential association and social control theories. American Sociological Review 52: McGloin, J.M Delinquency balance: Revisiting peer influence. Criminology. 47: McGloin, J.M. & Stickle, W.P Influence or convenience? Rethinking the role of peers or chronic offenders. Forthcoming in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. Matdsueda, Ross L The current state of differential association theory. Crime and Delinquency 34: 3: Warr, Mark and Mark Stafford 1991 The influence of delinquent peers: What they think or what they do? Criminology 29:

19 Costello, Barbara J. and Paul R. Vowell 1999 Testing control theory and differential association. Criminology 37: Gordon, Rachel A., Benjamin B. Lahey, Eriko Kawai, Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, David P. Farrington 2004 Antisocial behavior and youth gang membership: selection and socialization. Criminology 43: Haynie, Dana L Delinquent peers revisited: Does network structure matter? American Journal of Sociology 106: Friendship networks and delinquency: The relative nature of peer delinquency. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18: Kreager, Derek A Strangers in the halls: Isolation and delinquency in school networks. Social Forces 83: Haynie, Dana L. and D. Wayne Osgood 2005 Reconsidering peers and delinquency: How do peers matter? Social Forces 84: Chapter 1 of Taking Stock 19

20 November 15 th and 20 th Subcultural Theory Read one of two of the following: Elijah, Anderson 1999 The Code of the Street. New York: W.W. Norton. Nisbett, Richard E. and Dov Cohen 1996 The Culture of Honor. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Sullivan, Mercer 1989 Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Willis, Paul 1977 Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. New York: Columbia University Press. Matza, David 1964 Delinquency and Drift. New York: Wiley. Required Reading Wirth, Louis 1931 Culture conflict and delinquency. Social Forces 9: Akers, Ronald L Is differential association/social learning cultural deviance theory. Criminology 24: Hirschi, Travis 1996 Theory without Ideas: Reply to Akers. Criminology 34: Costello, Barbara J On the logical adequacy of cultural deviance theories. Theoretical Criminology 1: Matsueda, Ross 1997 Cultural deviance theory: The remarkable persistence of a flawed term. Theoretical Criminology 1: Kreager, Derek A When it s good to be bad: Violence and adolescent peer acceptance. Criminology 45:

21 November 27 th and 29 th Labeling Theory, Shame Theory, Defiance Theory and Procedural Justice Theory Becker, Howard 1963 Outsiders. New York: Free Press. Schur, Edwin 1971 Labeling Deviant Behavior. New York: Harper and Row. Braithwaite, John 1989 Crime, Shame and Reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tyler, Tom 1990 Why People Obey the Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Farrington, David 1977 The effects of public labeling. British Journal of Criminology 17: Wellford, Charles 1975 Labeling theory and criminology: An assessment." Social Problems 3: Paternoster, Raymond and Leeann Iovanni 1989 The labeling perspective and delinquency: An elaboration of the theory and an assessment of the evidence." Justice Quarterly 6: Matsueda, Ross 1992 Reflected appraisals, parental labeling, and delinquency: specifying a symbolic interactionist theory. American Journal of Sociology 91: Charles F. Wellford and Ruth A. Triplett 1993 The future of labeling theory: Foundations and Promises. Pp in F. Adler and W. S. Laufer (Eds.) Advances in Criminological Theory. Volume 4. New Burnswick, NJ: Transaction Press. Toni Makkai and John Braithwaite 1993 Reintegrative shaming and compliance with regulatory standards. Criminology 32: Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran 1997 Social altruism and crime. Criminology 35:

22 Carter Hay 1998 Parental sanctions and delinquent behavior: Toward a Clarification of Braithwaite s theory of reintegrative shaming Theoretical Criminology 2: An exploratory test of Braithwaite s reintegrative shaming theory. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 38: Lening Zhang and Sheldon Zhang 2004Reintegrative shaming and predatory delinquency. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 41: Chapter 14 of Taking Stock December 4 th Catch up and Wind up day final thoughts on criminological theory. December 6 th & 11 th Second Examination 22