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| Crime and Criminology | |
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| A Brief History of Criminology | |
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| Classical Criminology | |
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| Positivist Criminology | |
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| Sociological Criminology | |
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| Conflict Criminology | |
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| Contemporary Criminology | |
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| What Criminologists Do: The Criminological Enterprise | |
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| Criminal Statistics | |
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| Sociology of Law | |
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| Developing Theories of Crime Causation | |
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| Understanding and Describing Criminal Behavior | |
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| Penology | |
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| Victimology | |
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| Deviant or Criminal? | |
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| How Criminologists | |
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| Define Crime | |
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| The Consensus View of Crime | |
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| The Conflict View of Crime | |
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| The Interactionist View of Crime | |
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| A Definition of Crime | |
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| Crime and the Criminal Law | |
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| Common Law | |
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| Contemporary Criminal Law | |
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| The Elements of a Crime | |
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| Criminal Defenses | |
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| The Evolution of Criminal Law | |
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| Policy and Practice in Criminology Exotic Defenses | |
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| Ethical Issues in Criminology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Thinking Like a Criminologist | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| The Nature and Extent of Crime | |
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| The Uniform Crime Report | |
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| Victim Surveys | |
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| PRVS Findings | |
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| Self-Report Surveys | |
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| Self-Report Findings | |
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| Accuracy of Self-Reports | |
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| Evaluating Crime Data | |
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| Crime Trends | |
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| Trends in Violent Crime | |
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| The Criminological Enterprise Explaining Crime Trends | |
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| Trends in Property Crime | |
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| Trends in Victimization | |
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| What the Future Holds | |
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| Crime Patterns | |
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| The Ecology of Crime | |
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| Use of Firearms | |
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| Social Class and Crime | |
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| Policy and Practice in Criminology Youth Crime | |
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| Age and Crime | |
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| Gender and Crime | |
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| Race and Crime | |
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| The Chronic Offender | |
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| Summary | |
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| Thinking Like a Criminologist | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Victims and Victimization | |
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| Problems of Crime Victims | |
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| Economic Loss | |
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| System Abuse | |
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| Long-Term Stress | |
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| Fear | |
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| Antisocial Behavior | |
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| The Nature of Victimization | |
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| The Social Ecology of Victimization | |
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| The Victims Household | |
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| Victim Characteristics | |
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| The Victims and Their Criminals | |
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| Theories of Victimization | |
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| Victim Precipitation Theory | |
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| Lifestyle Theories | |
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| Routine Activities Theory | |
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| Routine Activities and Lifestyle | |
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| The Criminological Enterprise Crime and Everyday Life | |
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| Caring for the Victim | |
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| Victim Service Programs | |
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| Victims Rights | |
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| Self-Protection | |
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| Community Organization | |
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| Summary | |
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| Thinking Like a Criminologist | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Choice Theory: Because They Want To | |
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| The Development of Rational Choice Theory | |
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| The Concepts of Rational Choice | |
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| Offense and Offender Specifications | |
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| Structuring Criminality | |
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| Structuring Crime | |
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| Is Crime Rational? | |
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| Are Street Crimes Rational? | |
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| Is Drug Use Rational? | |
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| Can Violence Be Rational? | |
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| Why Do People Commit Crime? | |
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| Situational Crime Prevention | |
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| Crime Prevention Strategies | |
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| Displacement, Extinction, Discouragement, and Diffusion | |
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| General Deterrence | |
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| Certainty of Punishment | |
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| Level of Police Activity | |
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| Severity of Punishment | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| Swiftness of Punishment | |
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| Informal Sanctions | |
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| Critique of General Deterrence | |
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| Specific Deterrence | |
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| Does Specific Deterrence Deter Crime? | |
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| Stigmatization versus Reintegrative Shaming | |
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| Incapacitation | |
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| Race, Culture, Gender, and Criminology Deterring Domestic Violence | |
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| Can Incapacitation Reduce Crime? | |
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| The Logic Behind Incarceration | |
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| Three Strikes and Youre Out | |
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| Policy Implications of Choice Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Thinking Like a Criminologist | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Trait Theory: Its in Their Blood | |
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| The Development of Trait Theory | |
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| Contemporary Trait Theory | |
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| The Criminological Enterprise The Nature Assumption | |
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| Biological Trait Theories | |
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| Biochemical Conditions and Crime | |
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| The Criminological Enterprise Are You What You Eat? | |
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| Neurophysiological Conditions and Crime | |
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| Genetics and Crime | |
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| Evolutionary Views of Crime | |
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| Evaluation of the Biological Branch of Trait Theory | |
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| Psychological Trait Theories | |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective | |
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| Behavioral Perspective: Social Learning Theory | |
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| Cognitive Theory | |
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| Personality and Crime | |
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| Intelligence and CrimeSocial Policy Implications | |
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| Summary | |
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| Thinking Like a Criminologist | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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