Appendix B

Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice Suggested Reading List for PhD Theory Qualifying Exam

BOOKS

• Agnew, Robert W.  2005.  Why Do Criminals Offend?  A General Theory on Crime and Delinquency.  Los Angeles: Roxbury.
• Akers, Ronald L. 1998.  Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and
• Deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
• Anderson, Elijah.  1999.  Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and he Moral Life of the Inner City.  New York: W.W. Norton.
• Beccaria, Cesare.  1963.  On Crime and Punishment.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• Becker, Howard.  1963.  Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.  New York: Free Press.
• Beckett, Kathryn, and Theodore Sasson.  (2004). The Politics of Injustice (2^nd ed.)    Sage Publications.
• Bonger, Willem. 1969. Criminality and Economic Conditions (Abridged edition), edited by Austin Turk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Braithwaite, John.  1989.  Crime, Shame, and Reintegration.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Bursik, Robert J., and Harold G.  Grasmick.  1993.  Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control.  New York: Lexington.
• Cloward, Richard, and Lloyd Ohlin.  1960.  Delinquency and Opportunity.  Glencoe: Free Press.
• Cohen, Albert K. 1955. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. New York: The Free Press.
• Colvin, Mark.  2000.  Crime and Coercion: An Integrated Theory of Chronic Criminality.  New York: St.  Martin"s Press.
• Currie, Elliott.  1998.  Crime and Punishment in America.  New York: Metropolitan Books.
• Durkheim, Emile.  1951.  Suicide.  Translated by John Spaulding and George Simpson.  Glencoe: Free Press.
• Erikson, Kai.  1966.  Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance.  New York: John Wiley.
• Friedrichs, David O.  2004.  Trusted Criminals: White-Collar Crime in Contemporary Society, Second Edition.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
• Gottfredson, Michael R., and Travis Hirschi.  1990.  A General Theory of Crime.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Greenberg, David et al.  1993. Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Hagan, John.  1989.  Structural Criminology.  New Brunswik: Rutgers University Press.
• Hirschi, Travis.  1969.  Causes of Delinquency.  Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Katz, Jack.  1988.  Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions of Doing Evil.  New York: Basic Books.
• Kornhauser, Ruth.   1978.  Social Sources of Delinquency: An Appraisal of Analytic Models.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• LaFree, Gary.  1998.  Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America.  Boulder: Westview Press.
• Laub, John, and Robert J.  Sampson.  2003.  Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Lemert, Edwin.  1967.  Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Lynch, Michael, Raymond Michalowski, and W. Byron Groves.  2000.  A New Primer in Radical Criminology: Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power, and Identity, Third Edition.  Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.
• Maruna, Shadd.  2001.  Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Matza, David.  1964.  Delinquency and Drift.  New York: John Wiley and Sons.
• Messerschmidt, James W.  1993.  Masculinities and Crime.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Messner, Steven, and Richard Rosenfeld.  001.  Crime and the American Dream, 3^rd Edition.  Belmont, CA: Wadswoth.
• Milovanovic, Dragon.  2002. Critical Criminology: At The Edge.  Westport, CT: Praeger.
• Mosher, Clayton, Terence D.  Miethe, and Dretha M.  Philips.  2002.  The Mismeasure of Crime.   Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Passas, N. , and Agnew, R. (Eds.). (1997).  The Future of Anomie Theory.  Boston:  Northeastern University Press.
• Quinney, Richard.  1970.  The Social Reality of Crime.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
• Raine, Adrian. 1993. The Psychopathology of Crime: Criminal Behavior as a Clinical
• Disorder. San Diego: Academic Press.
• Raine, Adrian, Patricia Brennan, David P.  Farrington, and Sarnoff A.  Mednick.  1997.  Biosocial Bases of Violence.  New York: Plenum.
• Rowe, David C.  2002.  Biology and Crime, Second Edition.  Los Angeles: Roxbury.
• Sampson, Robert J., and John H.  Laub.  1993.  Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Sellin, Thorsten.  1938.  Culture Conflict and Crime.  New York: Social Science Research Council.
• Shaw, Clifford, and Henry McKay.  1942.  Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Simon, Rita James.  1975.  Women and Crime. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
• Smart, Carol.  1977.  Women, Crime, and Criminology: A Feminist Critique. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Sutherland, Edwin.  1949.  White-Collar Crime.  New York: Dryden.
• Sutherland, Edwin M. and Donald R. Cressey (1947 or later edition) Criminology. Philadelphia: J. B.Lippincott. (Chapter on differential association theory.)
• Taylor, Ian.  2000.  Crime in Context: A Critical Criminology of Market Society.
• Taylor, Ian, Paul Walton, and Jock Young.  1973. The New Criminology. NY: Harper.
• Thornberry, Terence, Marvin Krohn, Alan Lizotte, Carolyn Smith, and Kimberly Tobin.  2002.  Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective.
• Tittle, Charles R.  1995.  Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance.  Boulder: Westview Press.
• Warr, Mark.  2002.  Companions in Crime.  New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Wilson, James, and Richard Herrnstein.  1985.  Crime and Human Nature.  New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Wolfgang, Marvin, and Franco Ferracutti.   1967.  The Subculture of Violence.  London: Tavistock.

SUGGESTED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Agnew, Robert S. 1992.  "Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency." Criminology 30:47-87.
• Agnew, Robert, Timothy Brezina, John Paul Wright, and Francis T.  Cullen.  2002.  "Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory."  Criminology 40: 43-71.
• Akers, Ronald L. (1996) "Is Differential Association/Social Learning Cultural Deviance Theory?" Criminology 34 :229-247
• Akers, Ronald L., Marvin D. Krohn, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, and Marcia Rodosevich .1979.  "Social Learning and Deviant Behavior: A Specific Test of a General Theory."  American Sociological Review 44:636-655.
• Bellair, Paul.  1997.  "Social Interaction and Community Crime: Examining the Importance of Neighbor Networks." Criminology 35: 677-703.
• Britton, Dana M.  2000.  "Feminism in Criminology: Engendering the Outlaw." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 57:57-76.
• Broidy, Lisa and Robert Agnew. 1997.  "Gender and Crime: A General Strain
• Theory Perspective."  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 34:275-306.
• Caspi, Avshalom, Terrie Moffitt, Phil Silva, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Robert Krueger, and Pamela Schmutte. 1994.  "Are Some People Crime-Prone? Replications of the Personality- Crime Relationship Across Countries, Genders, Races, and Methods." Criminology 32:163-195.
• Cauffman, Elizabeth, Laurence Steinberg, and Alex R.  Piquero.  2005.  "Psychological, Neuropsychological, and Physiological Correlates of Serious Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence: The Role of Self-Control."  Criminology 43: 133-176.
• Cernkovich, Stephen A., Peggy C.  Giordano, and Jennifer Rudolph.  2000.  "Race, Crime, and the American Dream."  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 37:131-170.
• Chambliss, William.  1973.  "The Saints and the Roughnecks."  Society 11:4-31.
• ____________ 1964.  "A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy."  Social Problems 12:67-77.
• Clarke, Ronald V. and Derek B. Cornish. 1985. "Modeling Offenders Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy." Pp. 147-85 in N.  Moris and M. Tonry, eds., Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, Volume 6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Cohen, Lawrence E., and Marcus Felson.  1979. "Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach."  American Sociological Review 44: 588-608.
• Colvin, Mark, and John Pauly.  1983.  "A Critique of Criminology: Toward an Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory of Criminal Production."  American Journal of Sociology 89: 513-581.
• Costello, Barbara 1997.  "On the Logical Adequacy of Cultural Deviance Theories."  Theoretical Criminology 1:403-428.
• Cullen, Francis T.  1988. "Were Cloward and Ohlin Strain Theorists?  Delinquency and Opportunity Revisited." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25:214-241.
• Daly, Kathleen.  1997.  "Different Ways of Conceptualizing Sex/Gender in Feminist Theory and Their Implications for Criminology." Theoretical Criminology 1:25-51.
• Daly, Kathleen, and Meda Chesney-Lind.  1988.  "Feminism and Criminology."  Justice Quarterly 5:497-535.
• Durkheim, Emile.  1938.  "Rules for the Distinction of the Normal from the Pathological."  Pp.  85-107 in The Rules of Sociological Method.  Translated by W. D.  Hall.  New York: Free Press.
• Fagan, Jeffrey, and Deanna Wilkinson.  1998.  "Guns, Youth Violence, and Social Identity in Inner Cities."  In Michael Tonry and Mark Moore (Eds.), Crime and Justice, Vol. 24.  University of Chicago Press.
• Farnworth, Margaret, and Michael Leiber.  1989.  "Strain Theory Revisited: Economic Goals.  Educational Means, and Delinquency."  American Sociological Review 54: 263-274.
• Farrington, David P.  2003.  "Developmental and Life Course Criminology: Key Theoretical and Empirical Issues."  Criminology 41: 221-255.
• Grasmick, Harold G., Charles R.  Tittle, Robert J.  Bursik, 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: 5-29.
• Haynie, Dana.  2001.  "Delinquent Peers Revisited: Does Network Structure Matter?" American Journal of Sociology 106:1013-1057.
• Heimer, Karen, and Ross Matsueda.  1994.  "Role-taking, role-commitment, and delinquency: A theory of differential social control." American Sociological Review  59: 365-390.
• Hirschi, Travis 1996.  "Theory Without Ideas: Reply to Akers." Criminology 34:249-256.
• Horney, Julie, D. Wayne Osgood, and Ineke Haen Marshall. 1995.  "Criminal Careers in the Short-Term: Intra-Individual Variability in Crime and Its Relation to Local Life Circumstances." American Sociological Review 60:655-673.
• Kubrin, Charis E., and Ronald L.  Weitzer.  2003.  "New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory."  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:374-402.
• Makkai, Toni, and John Braithwaite.  1994.  "Reintegrative Shaming and Compliance With Regulatory Standards."  Criminology 32: 361-385.
• Matsueda, Ross.  2001.  "Labeling Theory: Historical Roots, Implications, and Recent Developments."  Pp.  233-241 in R. Paternoster and R. Bachman, Explaining Criminals and Crime.
• __________.  1992.  "Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency: Specifying a Symbolic Interactionist Theory." American Journal of Sociology 97: 1577-1611.
• __________ 1988.  "The Current State of Differential Association Theory." Crime and Delinquency 34:277-306.
• Merton,  Robert K. 1938.  "Social Structure and Anomie." American Sociological Review 5:672-682.                                         
• Miller, Walter B. 1958.  "Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang
• Delinquency,"  Journal of Social Issues 14:5-19.
• Moffitt, Terrie. E. 1993.  "Adolescence-Limited and Life Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy."  Psychological Review 100:674-701.
• Nagin, Daniel S.  1998.  "Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century."  in M.  Tonry, ed., Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 23: 1-42.
• Osgood, D.  Wayne, and Amy L.  Anderson.  2004.  "Unstructured Socializing and Rates of Delinquency." Criminology 519-550.
• Osgood, D. Wayne, Janet K. Wilson, Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman, and Lloyd D. Johnston. 1996. "Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior." American Sociological Review 61:635-55.
• Passas, N. 1995.  Continuities in the Anomie Tradition.  Advances in Criminological Theory, 6, 91-112.
• Passas, N. 1999.  Globalization, Criminogenic, Asymmetries and Economic Crime.  European Journal of Law Reform, 1 (4), 99-423.
• Passas, N. 2000.  Global Anomie, Dysnomie, and Economic Crime:   Hidden Consequences of Globalization and Neo-liberalism in Russia and Around the World.  Social Justice, 27 (2), 16-44.
• Passas, N. (2003).   Cross-border Crime and the Interface Between Legal and Illegal Actors. Security Journal, 16 (1). 19-37.
• Paternoster, Raymond, Robert Brame, Ronet Bachman, and Lawrence W. Sherman.  1997.  Do Fair Procedures Matter?  The Effect of Procedural Justice on Spouse Assault.  Law & Society Review 31: 163-204.
• Pattillo, Mary.  1998.  "Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood."  Social Forces 76:747-774.
• Piliavin, Irving, Rosemary Gartner, Craig Thornton, and Ross Matsueda.  1996.  "Crime, Deterrence, and Rational Choice." American Sociological Review 51: 101-119.
• Piquero, Alex R., and Greg Pogarsky. 2002.  "Beyond Stafford and Warr's Reconceptualization of Deterrence: Personal and Vicarious Experiences, Impulsivity, and Offending Behavior." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 39: 153 - 186.
• Pratt, Travis C., and Francis T. Cullen.  2000.  "The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis."Criminology 38:931-964.
• Quinney, Richard.. 1991.  "The Way of Peace: On Crime, Suffering, and Service."  Pp. 3-13 in Harold Pepinsky and Richard Quinney, eds., Criminology as Peacemaking. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
• Rose, Dina R., and Todd R.  Clear.  1998.  "Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime: Implications for Social Disorganization Theory.  Criminology 36: 441-478.
• Sampson, Robert J. 1997.  "The Embeddedness of Child and Adolescent Development: A Community-Level Perspective on Urban Violence. Pp. 31-77 in Joan McCord (ed.), Violence and Childhood in the Inner City.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002.   "Assessing ‘Neighborhood Effects": Social Processes and New Directions in Research."  Annual Review of Sociology 28: 443-478.
• Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997.  "Neighborhood and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy." Science 277:916-924.
• Sampson, Robert J., and W. Byron Groves. 1989.  "Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory."  American Journal of Sociology 94:774-802.
• Sampson, Robert J. and William Julius Wilson. 1995.  "Toward a Theory of  Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality."  Pp.37-54 in J. Hagan and R. D. Peterson (eds.), Crime and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Sherman, Lawrence W. 1993.  "Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance: A Theory of the
• Criminal Sanction."  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:445-473.
• Sherman, Lawrence W., Patrick Gartin, and Michael D. Buerger. 1989.  "Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place." Criminology 27: 27-56.
• Simpson, Sally S.  1989.  "Feminist Theory, Crime, and Justice."  Criminology 27:605-631.
• Spitzer, Stephen.  1975.  "Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance." Social Problems :638-65.
• Sherman, Lawrence et al.  (1997).  Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn"t, What"s Promising?  Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice. 
• Stafford, Mark C, and Mark Warr.  1993.  "A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30: 123-135.
• Uggen, Christopher.  2000.  "Class, gender, and arrest: An intergenerational analysis of workplace power and control."  Criminology 38:835-862.
• Wells, L. Edward and Joseph H. Rankin.  1988.  "Direct Parental Controls and Delinquency." Criminology 26:263-285.
• Wright, Bradley R. Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E.  Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1999.  "Low Self-Control, Social Bonds, and Crime: Social Causation, Social Selection, or Both?" Criminology 37:479-514.
• Wright, John Paul,  and Francis T. Cullen.  2001.  "Parental Efficacy and Delinquent Behavior: Do Control and Support Matter?"  Criminology 39: 601-629.