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Chapter 1 Prologue to the Study of Crime 3

Matthew Washington Who Had Death in His Eyes 4

Varieties of Crime 6

Rebels in Eden 19

Conclusion 25

Chapter 2 Data on Crime: Part Ⅰ 27

Bias in Official Statistics 29

Victim-Survey Data 32

Self-Report Surveys 43

Cross-Cultural Studies 53

Conclusion 54

Chapter 3 Data on Crime: Part Ⅱ 57

Corruption 57

White-Collar Crime 62

State-Organized Crime 78

Political Crime 81

Organized Crime 86

Professional Theft 89

Conclusion 91

Chapter 4 Criminal Law 93

Definition of Behavior as Criminal 93

Criminal and Civil Law 96

Process of Law Creation 99

Crime in Early England 101

Consensus Theory 112

Societal-Needs Theory 113

Ruling-Class Theory 115

Pluralist Theory 120

Structural-Contradictions Theory 120

Racism and Sexism in American Criminal Law 124

Conclusion 129

Chapter 5 Explanation and Description of Criminality 131

Constructing Scientific Theory 132

Conclusion 148

Chapter 6 Criminological Theory: An Overview 151

Historical Sketch of Explanations of Crime 152

Recent Developments in Criminology 158

Conclusion 169

Chapter 7 Biological Paradigms&(by Janet Katz and W.J.C.) 171

Early Studies of Biology and Crime 172

Studies of Intelligence and Crime 192

Current Status of Biological Theory 197

Conclusion 206

Chapter 8 Psychiatric Paradigms 209

Freud and Crime 209

Criminal Mind 227

Conclusion 228

Chapter 9 Social-Psychological Theories 231

Theoretical Developments 234

Conclusion 250

Chapter 10 Sociological Tradition: Normative Paradigms 251

Sociological Paradigms 255

Conclusion 271

Chapter 11 Crime and Social Structure 273

Structural Theories 275

Conclusion 296

Chapter 12 Crime and Structural Contradictions 299

Contradictions and Conflicts 300

Crime in Capitalist Societies 306

Crime in Socialist Societies 321

Conclusion 325

Chapter 13 State-Organized Crime 327

Smuggling 332

State-Organized Assassinations 340

Conspiracies 343

Other Illegal Activities 344

Conclusion 345

Chapter 14 Conclusion 349

References 359

Index 392