Note	1. You are going to be reading a substantial section from each of the books listed below. For some books, you will be reading all the chapters. For other books, you will be reading most. For others, you will be reading some. If you want to save, try used books either through www.amazon.com www.abebooks.com but be sure to plan ahead given long shipping times - perhaps up to four weeks. OF COURSE, Temple University bookstore is your preferred retailer for all things textbook and sweatshirt related. On the main course page you will find scads of additional recommended readings
Alphabetically	REQUIRED Collins, Randall (2008). Violence: A Micro Sociological Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13313-3.   $32. Garland, D. (2002). The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226283844 Gottfredson, M., & Hirschi, T. (1990). A General Theory of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0804717745   $23. Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency (Transaction Publishers 2002 edition ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0765809001 Laub, J., & Sampson, R. J. (2003). Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0674019938. Martinez, R. (2002). Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93403-6. $37. McLean, B., and Elkind, P. (2002). Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. New York: Penguin. ISBN 1-59184-008-2.  $7. Messner, S. F., & Rosenfeld, R. (2000). Crime and the American Dream (Third ed.). Monterey: Wadsworth. ISBN: 0534619584 St. Jean, Peter K. B. (2007) Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-10: 226774996 ISBN-13: 978-0226774992. $23. Taylor, R. B. (2000). Breaking Away From Broken Windows. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN-10: 0813397588 ;   ISBN-13: 978-0813397580. $47. Venkatesh, S. (2008) Gang Leader for a Day. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-150-9.  $17 Weisburd, D., Wheeler, S., Waring, E. (1994). Crimes of the Middle Classes: White-Collar Offenders in the Federal Courts. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN-10: 0300059469; ISBN-13: 978-0300059465. $17. RECOMMENDED Anderson, E. (2000). Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN: 0393320782 Black, D. (1998). The Social Structure of Right and Wrong (Revised ed.). New York: Elsevier Science / Academic Press. ISBN: 0121028038 Braithwaite, J. (1989). Crime, shame and reintegration. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. ISBN: 0521356687 Bursik, R. J., Jr., & Grasmick, H. (1993). Neighborhoods and crime. Lexington, Mass: Lexington. ISBN-10: 0739103024  ISBN-13: 978-0739103029.  Coser, L. (1956). The Functions of Social Conflict. New York: Free Press. ISBN: 002906810X Hawkins, K. (2003). Law As Last Resort: Prosecution Decision-Making in a Regulating Agency (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199243891 LaFree, G. (1998). Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America. Boulder, CO: Westview. ISBN: 0813334519 Laub, J., & Sampson, R. J. (2003). Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0674019938. Merry, S.E. 1999. Colonizing Hawai'i. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Schlegel, K. (1990). Just Deserts for Corporate Criminals. Boston: Northeastern University Press. ISBN: 1555530761 Merry, S.E. 1999. Colonizing Hawai'i. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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