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Sociology 8111 - Seminar in Criminology [pdf format]

SUPPLEMENTARY/RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND LINKS TO PURCHASE

Becker, Howard S. 1963. Outsiders. New York: Free Press. Chapters 1,2, and 8.

Katz, Jack. 1988. Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil. New York: Basic Books.

Gottfredson, Michael R., and Travis Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Hirschi, Travis. 1969. Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Maruna, Shadd. 2001. Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Warr, Mark. 2002. Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

TENTATIVE OUTLINE

1. 1/19 WELCOME

Introduction
Goals
Orientation

2. 1/26 BIG PICTURE ISSUES

Kornhauser, Chapter 2 (*Chapter 1 recommended).

Wilson, James Q. 1975. Thinking about Crime. Chapter 3: “Criminologists.”

Sampson, Robert J. 2000. “Whither the Sociological Study of Crime?” Annual Review of Sociology 26:711-14.

Sherman, Lawrence L., Denise C. Gottfredson, Doris L. MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn D. Bushway. 1998. "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising.” National Institute of Justice Research in Brief. Washington, DC: USGPO.

3. 2/2 RATIONAL CHOICE: Sara Wakefield's Precis

Clarke, Ronald V. and Derek B. Cornish. 1985. “Modeling Offenders’ Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy.” Pp. 147-85 in Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, Volume 6, edited by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McCarthy, Bill. 2002. “New Economics of Sociological Criminology.” Annual Review of Sociology 28:417-42.

Piliavin, Irving, Rosemary Gartner, Craig Thornton, and Ross L. Matsueda. 1986. “Crime, Deterrence, and Rational Choice.” American Sociological Review 51:101-19.

Sherman, Lawrence W. and Douglas A. Smith. 1992. “Crime, Punishment, and Stake in Conformity: Legal and Informal Control of Domestic Violence.” American Sociological Review 57:680-90.

*Nagin Daniel S, and Greg Pogarsky. 2001. “Integrating Celerity, Impulsivity, And Extra-Legal Sanction Threats Into A Model Of General Deterrence: Theory And Evidence.” Criminology 39:865-91.

*Becker, Gary. 1968. “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach.” Journal of Political Economy 76:169-217.

4. 2/9 SOCIAL (DIS)ORGANIZATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT: Gina Allen's Precis

Shaw, Clifford, and Henry H. McKay. 1931. Juvenile Delinquency in Urban Areas. Chapters 6-8.

Kornhauser chapter 3 (esp. 51-82)

Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277:918-24.

Pattillo Mary E. 1998. "Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood." Social Forces 76:747-74.

Clear Todd R., Rose Dina R, Waring Elin, and Kristen Scully. 2003. “Coercive Mobility And Crime: A Preliminary Examination Of Concentrated Incarceration And Social Disorganization.” Justice Quarterly 20:33-64.

*Sampson, Robert J. and Steve Raudenbush. 1999. "Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods." American Journal of Sociology 105: 603-651.

5. 2/16 DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION & SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: Mike Vuolo's Precis
[meet in 915 Social Science]

Sutherland, Edwin H. 1973. “Development of the Theory.” Pp. 13-29 and “Critique of the Theory” Pp. 30-41 in Edwin H. Sutherland on Analyzing Crime, edited by Karl Schuessler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kornhauser chapter 5 (esp. 181-204).

Sutherland, Edwin H. and Donald R. Cressey. “A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior.” Pp. 77-83 in Criminology 10th Edition.

Warr, Mark. 2002. Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4-6.

Ludwig, Jens, Greg J. Duncan, and Paul Hirschfield. 2001. “Urban Poverty And Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116: 655-79.

6. 2/23 ANOMIE THEORY AND “STRAIN” VARIANTS Gina Allen's Precis

Merton, Robert K. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie.” American Sociological Review 3:672-82.

Kornhauser, Chapter 4, esp. pages 139-150.

Messner, Steven F. and Richard Rosenfeld. 1997. “Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory” Social Forces 75: 1393-1416.

Agnew, Robert, Timoty Brezina, John Paul Wright, and Francis T. Cullen. 2002. “Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory” Criminology 40:43-72.

*Blau, Peter, and Judith Blau. 1982. “The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime.” American Sociological Review 47:114-29.

7. 3/2 SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY AND LIFE-COURSE VARIANTS Aren Wish's Precis

Hirschi, Travis. 1969. Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapters 1 and 2 (Chapters 7-11 recommended if you are unfamiliar with Hirschi).

Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 1990. “Crime and Deviance over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds.” American Sociological Review 55:609-627.

Edin, Kathryn, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal. 2004. “Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men.” Pp. 46-75 in Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage.

*Costello, Barbara, and Paul Vowell. “Testing Control Theory and Differential Association: A Reanalysis of the Richmond Youth Project Data.” Criminology 37:815-42.

*Heimer, Karen, and Ross L. Matsueda. 1994. “Role-Taking, Role Commitment, and Delinquency: A Theory of Differential Social Control.” American Sociological Review 59:365-390

*Uggen, Christopher. 2000. “Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism.” American Sociological Review 65:529-46.

8. 3/9 SELF-CONTROL: Sara Wakefield's Precis

Gottfredson, Michael R., and Travis Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Chapters 2, 5, and 6.

Wright, Bradley R. et al. 1999. “Low Self Control, Social Bonds, and Crime: Social Causation, Social Selection, or Both?” Criminology 37:479-514.

Pratt, Travis C. and Francis T. Cullen. “The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis.” Criminology 38:931-964.

*Geis, Gilbert. 2000. “On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime: A Critique.” Theoretical Criminology 4: 55-69.

*Grasmick, Harold G., Charles R. Tittle, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., and Bruce J. Arneklev. 1993. “Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:5-29.

3/16 – no class – spring break

9. 3/23 LABELING AND SOCIETAL REACTION Valentine Namakula's Precis

Becker, Howard S. 1963. Outsiders. New York: Free Press. Chapters 1,2, and 8.

Lemert, Edwin. 1967. Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 3.

Bernburg Jon Gunnar, and Marvin D. Krohn. 2003. “Labeling, Life Chances, and Adult Crime: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Official Intervention in Adolescence on Crime in Early Adulthood.” Criminology 41:1287-1318.

Matsueda, Ross L. 1992. “Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency: Specifying a Symbolic Interactionist Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 97: 1577-1611.

*Erikson, Kai T. 1962. “Notes on the Sociology of Deviance.” Social Problems 9:307-14.

*Hagan, John, and Alberto Palloni. 1990. “The Social Reproduction of a Criminal Class in Working-Class London, circa 1950-1980." American Journal of Sociology 96:265-99.

10. 3/30 PHENOMENOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND DESISTANCE [meet in 1183 Social Science]

Katz, Jack. 1988. Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1-3.

Maruna, Shadd. 2001. Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Chapters 1, 5, and 6.

Giordano, Peggy C, Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Jennifer L. Rudolph. 2002. “Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation.” American Journal of Sociology 107:990-1064.

*Hagan, John, and Holly Foster. 2003. “S/He's a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood.” Social Forces 82: 53-86.

11. 4/6 CRIMINAL CAREERS AND THE LIFE COURSE Sara Flood's Precis

Blumstein, Alfred. 1987. “Characterizing Criminal Careers.” Science 237:985-91.

Moffitt, Terrie E. 1993. “Adolescent-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy.” Psychological Review 100: 674-701.

Laub, John H., and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1-5.

12. 4/13 CRIMINAL CAREERS AND THE LIFE COURSE Chay Lee 's Precis

Laub, John H., and Robert J. Sampson. 2003. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters 6-10.

*Piquero Alex R., David P. Farrington, and Alfred Blumstein. 2003. "The Criminal Career Paradigm." Crime and Justice-A Review of Research 30:359-506

13. 4/20 RACE, CONFLICT, AND PUNISHMENT Sara Walker's Precis

Wacquant, Loic. 2000. “The New 'Peculiar Institution': On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto.” Theoretical Criminology 4:377-89.

Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-605.

Pettit, Becky and Bruce Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69:151-69.

*Beckett, Katherine. Race and Drug Law Enforcement in Seattle [unpublished manuscript]

*Quinney, Richard. 1977. Class, State, and Crime. New York: David McKay.

*Colvin, Mark and John Pauly. 1983. “A Critique of Criminology: Toward an Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory of Delinquency Production.” American Journal of Sociology 89:513-52.

*Messerschmidt, James. 1993. Masculinities and Crime: Critique and Reconceptualization of Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

14. 4/27 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT AS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES Pao Lee's Precis

Hagan, John. 1994. “Destiny and Drift: Subcultural Preferences, Status Attainments, and the Risks and Rewards of Youth.” American Sociological Review 56:567-82.

Uggen, Christopher and Jeff Manza. 2002. "Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States." American Sociological Review 67:777-803.

Western, Bruce. 2002. “The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality.” American Sociological Review 67:477-98.

Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108: 937-975.

*Mauer, Marc, and Meda Chesney-Lind. 2003. Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment. New York:The New Press.

15. 5/4 CLASS WRAP-UP AND DISCUSSION