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