Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

1 Introduction: Theory and Contemporary Criminology 1
Charles R. Tittle

2 Correlates of Crime 18
Matt DeLisi and Michael G. Vaughn

3 Theory Testing In Criminology 37
Travis C. Pratt

4 Deterrence 50
Thomas A. Loughran, Ray Paternoster, and Douglas B. Weiss

5 Contemporary Biosocial Criminology: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2000–2012 75
J.C. Barnes, Brian B. Boutwell, and Kevin M. Beaver

6 A Developmental Perspective on Adolescent Risk‐Taking and Criminal Behavior 100
Elizabeth Cauffman, Caitlin Cavanagh, Sachiko Donley, and April Gile Thomas

7 Social Disorganization Theory’s Greatest Challenge: Linking Structural Characteristics to Crime in Socially Disorganized Communities 121
Charis E. Kubrin and James C. Wo

8 Routine Activities, Delinquency, and Youth Convergences 137
Jose R. Agustina and Marcus Felson

9 Environmental Criminology 156
Aiden Sidebottom and Richard Wortley

10 Control as an Explanation of Crime and Delinquency 182
Chester L. Britt and Michael Rocque

11 Strain, Economic Status, and Crime 209
Robert Agnew

12 Social Learning Theory 230
Ronald L. Akers and Wesley G. Jennings

13 Cultural Processes, Social Order, and Criminology 241
Mark T. Berg, Eric A. Sevell, and Eric A. Stewart

14 Labeling Theory: Past, Present, and Future 271
Ruth Triplett and Lindsey Upton

15 Feminist Theory 290
Joanne Belknap

16 Critical Criminology 301
Martin D. Schwartz and Henry H. Brownstein

17 Integrating Criminological Theories 318
Marv Krohn and Jeffrey T. Ward

18 Developmental and Life‐Course Theories of Crime 336
Tara Renae McGee and David P. Farrington

19 Biosocial Bases of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior 355
Frances R. Chen, Yu Gao, Andrea L. Glenn, Sharon Niv, Jill Portnoy, Robert Schug, Yaling Yang, and Adrian Raine

20 From Theory to Policy and Back Again 380
Scott H. Decker

21 How Do Criminologists Interpret Statistical Explanation of Crime? A Review of Quantitative Modeling in Published Studies 395
David Weisburd, Breanne Cave, and Alex R. Piquero

22 Situational Theory: The Importance of Interactions and Action Mechanisms in the Explanation of Crime 415
Per‐Olof H. Wikström and Kyle Treiber

23 Macro‐Level Theory: A Critical Component of Criminological Exploration 445
Eric P. Baumer and Ashley N. Arnio

24 What International Research Has Told Us About Criminological Theory 475
Olena Antonaccio and Ekaterina V. Botchkovar

25 Qualitative Criminology’s Contributions to Theory 497
Andy Hochstetler and Heith Copes

Index 521

About the Author

Alex R. Piquero is Ashbel Smith Professor in the Program in Criminology in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance at Griffith University, Australia, and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2008 to 2013 he was co-editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of criminal careers, crime prevention, criminological theory, and quantitative research methods. He has collaborated on several books, including Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age: Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (2013), Handbook of Quantitative Criminology (2011), and Key Issues in Criminal Careers Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (2007).