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Crime And the American Dream

by: Messner, Steven F.; Rosenfeld, Richard

Crime And the American Dream

by: Messner, Steven F.; Rosenfeld, Richard

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9780534619589
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0534619584
Edition: 4th
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Copyright: 02/28/2006
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

PREFACE. 1. A Society Organized for Crime. 2. By Any Means Necessary: Serious Crime in America. 3. Ships in the Night: Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology. 4. Culture, Institutional Structure, and Social Control: A Sociological Explanation of Crime. 5. Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream. REFERENCES. INDEX.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

A Society Organized for Crime

(16)

Crime and Responses to Crime in America

(3)

The Nature and Level of Criminal Violence

(1)

Fear of Crime

(1)

Crime Control

(1)

The Virtues and Vices of the American Dream

(5)

Evolution of the Concept of the American Dream

(61)

The Dark Side of the American Dream

Monetary Success and Noneconomic Roles

(1)

Universalism and Economic Inequality

(2)

The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Anomie Perspective

(6)

Core Ideas, Assumptions, and Propositions

(1)

The ``Golden Age'' of Anomie Theory

(1)

Decline and Revival

(1)

Unfinished Business

(3)

By Any Means Necessary: Serious Crime in America

(25)

Cross-National Comparisons of Crime

(8)

Homicide and Robbery Rates in International Context

(1)

The Form of Criminal Behavior

(1)

The Social Response to Crime

(1)

Gun-Related Crime

(2)

Has It Always Been This Way?

(1)

Race and Criminal Violence

(2)

White-Collar Crimes

(4)

Prevalence and Costs of White-Collar Crime

(1)

Violent White-Collar Crime

(1)

Social Response

(2)

Serious Crime and the Quality of Life

(10)

Taking Precautions by Any Means Necessary

(2)

Life in a War Zone

(1)

The Struggle for Institutional Control

(7)

Ships in the Night: Theoretical Perspectives in Contemporary Criminology

(24)

The Scope Conditions of Contemporary Criminological Theories

(6)

Levels of Explanation

(4)

Serious Crimes

(2)

The Unfulfilled Promise of the Sociological Paradigm

(17)

Cultural-Social Learning Explanations of Crime

(2)

Disorganization-Control Explanations of Crime

(2)

The Common Origins of Cultural Deviance Theory and Social Disorganization Theory

(2)

Anomie-Strain Explanations of Crime

(2)

Criticisms of Anomie Theory

(7)

Culture, Institutional Structure, and Crime

(35)

The Value Foundations of the American Dream

(3)

Achievement

(1)

Individualism

(1)

Universalism

(1)

The ``Fetishism'' of Money

(1)

The Institutional Structure of American Society

(13)

The Nature and Functioning of Social Institutions

(3)

The American Dream and the Institutional Balance of Power

(2)

Devaluation

(3)

Accommodation

(3)

Penetration

(2)

Social Organization and Crime

(17)

Anomie and Weak Social Institutions

(3)

The Social Distribution of Crime: Gender and Race

(3)

Kids, Drugs, Guns, and Violence

(3)

The Social Response to Crime

(8)

Strengthening Social Institutions and Rethinking the American Dream

101

(26)

Conventional Strategies for Crime Control

103

(9)

The Conservative Camp: The War on Crime

104

(1)

Mandatory-Minimum Sentencing and the Drug War

104

(1)

The Expansion of Punitive Social Control

105

(1)

Unintended Consequences of Expanded Punitive Control

106

(1)

The Liberal Camp: The War on Poverty and on Inequality of Opportunity

107

(1)

Effects of Liberal Policies on Crime Rates

108

(1)

Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform

109

(1)

Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism

110

(2)

Crime Reduction Through Social Reorganization

112

(9)

Institutional Reform

112

(1)

The Family and Schools

112

(3)

The Polity

115

(4)

Social Stratification and the Economy

119

(2)

The Task of Cultural Regeneration

121

(1)

An Intellectual Foundation for Change

122

(1)

Toward a Mature Society

123

(4)

References

127

(17)

Index

144

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