CJ 8106/406  Criminological Theories Fall 2010

Books
alphabetically and in order to be read

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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

Garland, D. (2002). The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226283844 $19

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 $27

Laub, J., & Sampson, R. J. (2003). Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0674011910.

Peterson, R.D., and Krivo, L.J. (2010). Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood crime and the racial-spatial divide. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 978-0871546937 $30

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.

Moore, W. (2010). The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. New York: Spiegel & Grau (Random House) ISBN: 978-0385528191 $16

Messner, S. F., & Rosenfeld, R. (2001). Crime and the American Dream (2nd OR 3rd ed. OR 4th edition). Monterey: Wadsworth. ISBN: 0534619584

Savelsberg, J. (2010). Crime and human rights. Los Angeles: Sage. ISBN 978-1-84787-925-7 $26

Venkatesh, S. (2008) Gang Leader for a Day. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-150-9.  $11

Zimbardo, P. The Lucifer Effect. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-7444-7 $12

 

INCREDIBLY STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BETWEEN NOW AND YOUR ADVANCED EXAM

 

 

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