Chapter 1. Introduction to the Book: An Overview of Issues in
Criminological Theory
Chapter 2. Preclassical and Classical Theories of Crime
Chapter 3. Modern Applications of the Classical Perspective:
Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Routine Activities or Lifestyle
Theories of Crime
Chapter 4. Early Positive School Perspectives of Criminality
Chapter 5. Modern Biosocial Perspectives of Criminal Behavior
Chapter 6. Early Social Structure and Strain Theories of Crime
Chapter 7. The Chicago School and Cultural and Subcultural Theories
of Crime
Chapter 8. Social Process and Learning Theories of Crime
Chapter 9. Social Reaction and Critical Models of Crime
Chapter 10. Feminist Models of Crime
Chapter 11. Life-Course Perspectives of Criminality
Chapter 12. Integrated Theoretical Models and New Perspectives of
Crime
Stephen G. Tibbetts, currently a Professor at California State
University, San Bernardino, has been pursuing an understanding
of criminal offending for over the past two decades. He has
attempted to discover the extent to which individuals’ inherent
dispositions and attitudinal traits contribute to their offending
decisions, especially in relation to other factors, such as
demographic, developmental, and situational factors. Dr. Tibbetts’
research has included work on the differences between men and women
in their decisions to commit deviant behavior, as well as their
perceptions of risk and consequences of getting caught. His
additional research interests include the effects of perinatal
disorders as an influence in future criminality, the etiology of
white-collar crime, and gang intervention. Dr. Tibbetts has
published nine books and more than 50 scholarly papers examining
various issues in criminology. He received the 2011 Outstanding
Professor Award at CSU, San Bernardino. He previously worked
extensively as an Officer of the Court in providing recommendations
for dispositions of numerous juvenile court cases from 1997 to
2008.
Alex R. Piquero is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Sociology & Criminology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar
the University of Miami and Professor of Criminology at Monash
University in Melbourne, Australia. He was Co-Editor of the Journal
of Quantitative Criminology from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves
as Editor of Justice Evaluation Journal.
Prior to joining the University of Miami in August 2020, he was
Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology at The University of Texas at
Dallas, where he also served as Associate Dean for Graduate
Programs in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
and Director of Social Impact in the Office of Research. He has
also served on the faculties of Florida State University,
University of Maryland, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/City
University of New York, University of Florida, Northeastern
University, and Temple University.
He has published over 475 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of
criminal careers, race/immigration and crime, crime prevention,
criminological theory, and quantitative research methods, and has
authored several books including Key Issues in Criminal Careers
Research: New Analyses from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent
Development (Cambridge University Press, with David P. Farrington
and Alfred Blumstein), Handbook of Quantitative Criminology
(Springer, with David Weisburd), and Developmental Criminology and
the Crime-drop: A Comparative Analysis of Criminal Careers in Two
Birth Cohorts (Cambridge University Press, with Jason Payne).
His work has been cited over 48,000 times (h-index=116). A 2019
article in Plos Biology identified him as being included among the
top 100,000 most-cited scientists in the world. In November 2019
and November 2020, he was recognized by the Web of Science Group as
one of the world’s most influential researchers (i.e., a Highly
Cited Researcher).
He has served as Executive Counselor with the American Society of
Criminology, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel
Evaluating the National Institute of Justice, Member of the
National Academy of Sciences Panel on A Prioritized Plan to
Implement a Developmental Approach in Juvenile Justice Reform,
Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Modernizing the
Nation’s Crime Statistics, Member of the Racial Democracy, Crime
and Justice Network at Ohio State University, and Member of the
MacArthur Foundation′s Research Network on Adolescent Development &
Juvenile Justice. He has given congressional testimony on
evidence-based crime prevention practices in the area of
early-family/parent training programs, and has provided counsel and
support to several local, state, national, and international
criminal justice agencies, including various police and
correctional agencies.
In 2015, US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to the
Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board. In September
2019, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson appointed him to the Mayor’s Task
Force on Safe Communities and Dallas County District Attorney John
Creuzot appointed him as a member of the DA’s Urban Crime
Initiative. In December 2020, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine
F. Rundle appointed him to the Executive Committee of the
Continuing Justice Reform Commission. In March 2021, he was elected
to the Council on Criminal Justice.
Professor Piquero is past recipient of the American Society of
Criminology′s Young Scholar (2002) and E-Mail Mentor of the Year
(2005) Awards, Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology
(2011) and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2011),
recipient of the Western Society of Criminology President’s Award
(2017), recipient of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Bruce
Smith, Sr. Award (2019), recipient of the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Division of Developmental & Life-Course Criminology
of the American Society of Criminology (2020) and has also received
numerous teaching awards including the University of Florida′s
College of Arts & Sciences Teacher of the Year Award (2004), the
University of Maryland′s Top Terp Teaching Award (2008), the
University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2014), as
well as the University of Texas at Dallas Diversity Award. In 2018,
he was named to The University of Texas System’s Academy of
Distinguished Teachers.
His research has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, CNN,
The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, USA
Today, Miami Herald, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, and the
Dallas Morning News. NBC News Latino profiled him via an exclusive
interview with Washington Post syndicated columnist Esther J.
Cepeda
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/what-i-ve-learned-our-talk-top-ranked-criminologist-alex-n522046).
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