Appendix A

Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice Suggested Reading List for Master's Comprehensive Exam

Statistics:

Title  / Author

Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research, 2^nd Edition   Fox

Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice                           Bachman & Paternoster

 

Research Methods:

Title  / Author

• Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for  Research.  Chicago: Rand McNally. /D. Campbell & J. Stanley
• Quasi-experimentation.  Boston: Houghton Offline. /T. Cook & D. Campbell
• Intervention mapping: A process for developing theory and evidence-based health education programs.  1998. Health Education and Behavior 25 (5): 545-563.   L. Bartholomew, G. Parcel G. Kok
• Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, Seventh Edition.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. / P.  Rossi, M.  Lipsey & H.
Freeman
• Ch.  1: An overview of program evaluation
• Ch.  3 Identifying issues and formulating questions
• The significance of definitions of success in program evaluation.  2000.  Evaluation Review 24: 516-536 /  M.  Pulin, P.  Harris &  P.  Jones
• How great is G.R.E.A.T.?  Results from a longitudinal quasi-experimental design.  2001.  Criminology and Public Policy 1: 87-118. / F.  Esbensen, W.  Osgood, T.  Taylor, D.  Peterson A. Freng
• Research Methods for Criminal Justice & Criminology /Maxfield and  Babbie 

Criminal Justice  Process:

 Title/Author

• Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control / Wilson and  Petersilia
• Criminal Justice 2000, Vol. 2, Boundary Changes in Criminal Justice Organizations / NIJ
• Criminal Justice 2000, Vol. 3, Policies, Processes, and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System /NIJ
• Taming the System / Walker
• The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies,  9^th Edition. Wadsworth, 2004. / Cole, Gertz and Bunger
• Discretionary Justice.  Louisiana University Press, 1969 (reprinted by Greenwood Press, 1980). / Davis
• Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues, 4^th Edition. Roxbury, 2004 /Eskridge
• The Craft of Justice: Politics and Work in Criminal Court Communities,  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. /Flemming  Nardulli, & Eisenstein
• Crime and Punishment in American History.  Basic Books, 1993. / Friedman
• The Dirty Harry Problem, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1980.  452: 33-47. / Klockars
• Politics and Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1993. / McCoy
• The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, 6^th Edition. Allen and Bacon. 2001 / Reiman 
• Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments.  New York: Hill and Wang. 1976. /Von Hirsch
• Popular Justice, 2^nd Edition. Oxford.  1998 / Walker
• Public Policy, Crime and Criminal Justice.  Prentice Hall. 2000. / Hancock
• When Prisoners Come Home. New York: Oxford. 2003. / Petersilia
• Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. / Singer
• The Desirability of Goal Conflict Within The Criminal Justice System.  Journal of Criminal Justice, 9, 19-31. 1980. / Wright
• Lock ' Em Up: Attitudes Toward Punishing Juvenile Offenders. Canadian Journal of Criminology, 38(2), 191-212./ Baron & Hartnagel
• Three Strikes and You"re Out: The Impact of California's New Mandatory Sentencing Law on Serious Crime Rates. Crime & Delinquency, 43 (4): 457-469. / Stolzenberg & D'Alessio
• Four Models of The Criminal Process. Journal of Law and Criminology 89 (2), 671-703. / Roach
• The Effect of State Sentencing Policies on Incarceration Rates. Crime & Delinquency, 48 (3), 456-479. 2002. / Sorensen and Stemen
• Racial Disparities in Official Assessments of Juvenile Offenders: Attributional Stereotypes as Mediating Mechanisms.American Sociological Review. 63. 1998. / Bridges and  Steen

• The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing.Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 24:69-92. 1987./ Zatz

• Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Merge. Punishment Society. 3:95-134. 2001. Wacquant 
• The Social and Moral Costs of Mass Incarceration in African-American Communities.Stanford Law Review. 56:1271-1305. 2004. / D. Roberts

Criminology:

An understanding of major schools of thought and specific contemporary theories is expected. These include the following:

• The Classical School
• Biological and Psychological Positivism
• Neoclassical Theory
• Cohen and Felson
• Cornish and Clarke
• Social Disorganization Theory
• Shaw and McKay
• Sampson
• Social Learning Theory
• Sutherland
• Akers
• Anomie/Strain Theories
• MertonMerton 
• Agnew
• Messner and Rosenfeld
• Subcultural Theories
• Cohen
• Wolfgang and Ferracuti
• Anderson
• Control Theories
• Hirschi
• Matza
• Gottfredson and Hirschi
• Societal Reaction Theory
• Lemert
• Matsueda
• Braithwaite
• Conflict, Critical and Radical Approaches
• Sellin
• Turk
• Bonger
• Quinney
• Chambliss
• Feminist Theory
• Daly and Chesney-Lind
• Messerschmidt
• Developmental and Life Course Criminology
• Moffitt
• Sampson and Laub

 

It is suggested that you consult one or more of the following texts in theoretical criminology as well as one or more of the following books of primary readings.

Title                                                                                                       Author

Texts:

Theoretical Criminology                                                                                    Vold, Bernard, and Snipes

Criminological Theories                                                                                     Akers and Sellers

Theories of Crime                                                                                                Curran and Renzetti

Books of Readings:

Explaining Criminals and Crime:                                                                     Paternoster and Bachman

Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory

Criminological Theory: Past to Present                                                           Cullen and  Agnew

The Criminological Theory Reader                                                                  Henry and Einstadter

Theories of Crime: A Reader                                                                            Renzetti, Curran, and Carr

 

An understanding of measures of crime, and their strengths and weaknesses, is also expected.  A good source in this area is:

The Mismeasure of Crime                                                                                 Mosher, Miethe, and Phillips