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Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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A Society Organized for Crime | |
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Crime and Responses to Crime in America | |
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The Nature and Level of Criminal Violence | |
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Fear of Crime | |
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Crime Control | |
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The Virtues and Vices of the American Dream | |
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Evolution of the Concept of the American Dream | |
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The Dark Side of the American Dream | |
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The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Anomie Perspective | |
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Core Ideas, Assumptions, and Propositions | |
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The "Golden Age" of Anomie Theory | |
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Decline and Revival | |
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Unfinished Business | |
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Notes | |
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By Any Means Necessary: Serious Crime in America | |
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Cross-National Comparisons of Crime | |
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Homicide and Robbery Rates in International Context | |
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The Form of Criminal Behavior | |
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The Social Response to Crime | |
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Gun-Related Crime | |
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Has It Always Been This Way? | |
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Race and Criminal Violence | |
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White-Collar Crimes | |
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Prevalence and Costs of White-Collar Crime | |
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Violent White-Collar Crime | |
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Social Response | |
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Serious Crime and the Quality of Life | |
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Taking Precautions by Any Means Necessary | |
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Life in a War Zone | |
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The Struggle for Institutional Control | |
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Notes | |
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Ships in the Night: Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology | |
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The Scope Conditions of Contemporary Criminological Theories | |
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Levels of Explanation | |
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Serious Crimes | |
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The Unfulfilled Promise of the Sociological Paradigm | |
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Cultural-Social Learning Explanations of Crime | |
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Disorganization-Control Explanations of Crime | |
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The Common Origins of Cultural Deviance Theory and Social Disorganization Theory | |
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Anomie-Strain Explanations of Crime | |
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Criticisms of Anomie Theory | |
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Notes | |
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Culture, Institutional Structure, and Crime | |
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The Value Foundations of the American Dream | |
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Achievement | |
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Individualism | |
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Universalism | |
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The "Fetishism" of Money | |
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The Institutional Structure of American Society | |
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The Nature and Functioning of Social Institutions | |
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The American Dream and the Institutional Balance of Power | |
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Social Organization and Crime | |
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Anomie and Weak Social Institutions | |
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The Social Distribution of Crime: Gender and Race | |
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Kids, Drugs, Guns, and Violence | |
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The Social Response to Crime | |
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Notes | |
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Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream | |
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Conventional Strategies for Crime Control | |
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The Conservative Camp: The War on Crime | |
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The Progressive Camp: The War on Poverty and on Inequality of Opportunity | |
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Beyond Progressivism and Conservatism | |
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Crime Reduction Through Social Reorganization | |
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Institutional Reform | |
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Social Stratification and the Economy | |
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The Task of Cultural Regeneration | |
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An Intellectual Foundation for Change | |
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Toward a Mature Society | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |