Table of Contents

1 Foreword 2 Why Experiment Now? Coordinating Research Methods to Accelerate Innovation in Law, Crime, and Deviance 3 Gottfredson and Hirschi in the Lab: An Experimental Test of the General Theory of Crime 4 Deterring Deviance: Rationality and Self-Control 5 Comment: Self-Control in the Lab 6 Norms and Neighborhoods: Explaining Variation in Informal Control 7 The Effects of Status and Peer Support on the Justification and Approval of Deviance 8 Comment: Social Influence in the Lab 9 Prosecutorial Misconduct in Serious Cases: Theory and Design of a Laboratory Experiment 10 Constructing Focal Points through Legal Expression: An Experimental Test 11 Comment: Exploring the LImits of Law 12 Whither Experiments in Crime, Deviance and Law? 13 Criminology as an Experimental Science 14 Thinking Experimental

About the Author

Christine Horne is associate professor of sociology at Washington State University and coeditor of Theories of Social Order. Michael J. Lovaglia is professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and the author of Knowing People: The Personal Use of Social Psychology, 2nd Edition.

Reviews

Experiments in Law and Criminology cogently argues for the benefits of using laboratory experiments in testing, refining, and extending theories of deviance and social control. Moreover, this collection is useful as a primer on how, when, and why to use expirements, and argues that only coordination of multiple methods - of laboratory experiments with case studies, surveys, official archives, and field experiments - promises to accelerate growth of our understanding of law and criminology. Brilliantly conceived to exemplify what it advocates, Experimental Studies is an exciting mix of creative theory, ingenious experiment, and illuminating dialogue with and among noted theorists and researchers.
*Morris Zelditch, professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University., and coeditor of New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory*

This groundbreaking anthology of experimental law and criminology raises important issues for the development of criminology as an experimental science. With commentaries by well-know criminologists and legal scholars, including Travis Hirschi and Chris Uggen, Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution is a highly useful and insightful text.
*Darrell Steffensmeier, professor of sociology and criminology at Penn State University, is coauthor of Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Crim*