Table of Contents

Introduction: The Bearing of Sociological Theory On Criminological Research (Mathieu Deflem) PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO MODELS IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY ANALYSIS. Work and Crime: Can The Missing Link Be Understood Through Max Webers Protestant Ethic?. (Karl F. Schumann). Truants and the Family: An Empirical Study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence. (Imke Dunkake). Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures. (Sanjay Marwah & Mathieu Deflem). Criminological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead. (Ross L. Matsueda). Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency. (Karen Heimer, Stacy De Coster, & Halime Unal). Commentary to Part I: Theory and Research in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance. (Ronald L. Akers). PART II: CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Identity and Intellectual Work: Biography, Theory and Research on Law Enforcement. (Nigel G. Fielding). Sociological Theory in the Study of Sentencing: Lighthouse for a Traveler Between Continents. (Joachim J. Savelsberg). They Bring You Up To Do Like Your Daddy Done: Stratification Theory, Employment, and Crime. (Robert D. Crutchfield). Emotions, Crime, and Justice: Exploring Durkheimian Themes. (Susanne Karstedt). In Search of Criminologys Epistemological Threshold. (Rene Van Swaaningen). Commentary to Part II: The Fields of Sociology and Criminology. (Fritz Sack).

Reviews

"In the end, we have to ask whether the book's overall thesis, that sociological theory informs the best criminiological work, is supported. I think, overall, it is..." -Sawyer Sylvester, Department of Sociology, Bates College, for The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 17 No. 2 (February 2007)