Empirical studies and comparative perspectives

Volume 1: Part 1 Classic perspectives - development and commentaries: Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay - Chicago criminologists, J. Snodgrass epidemiology and individual conduct - a case from criminology, D. Cressey illegitimate means, anomie and deviant behaviour, R. Cloward lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency, W.B. Miller the delinquent gang as a near group, L. Yablonsky a new theory of delinquency and crime, W. Reckless delinquent subcultures - sociological interpretations of gang delinquency, D. Bordua techniques of neutralization - a theory of delinquency, G. Sykes and D. Matza juvenile delinquency and subterranean values, D. Matza and G. Sykes sociology of the deviant act - anomie theory and beyond, A. Cohen hellfire and delinquency, T. Hirschi and R. Stark mods, rockers and the rest - community reactions to juvenile delinquency, S. Cohen delinquency theory and recent research, L. Empey. Part 2 Debate, synthesis and critique: alternative strategies for the development of delinquency theories applicable to other cultures, L. DeFleur youth crime in postindustrial societies - an integrated perspective, P. Friday and J. Hage delinquency and the age structure of society, D. Greenberg the paradigmatic crisis in delinquency theory, H. Schwendinger and J. Schwendinger a structuralist critique of the IQ-delinquency hypothesis - theory and evidence, S. Menard and B. Morse an integrated theoretical perspective on delinquent behaviour, D. Elliott et al settling accounts with subcultures - a feminist critique, A. McRobbie youth, the family and the regulation of the informal - some notes on problems and prospects in youth culture theory, N. Dorn and N. South the web of conformity - a network approach to the explanation of delinquent behaviour, M. Krohn play theory of delinquency - toward a general theory of "action", I. Sato foundations for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency, R. Agnew. Part 3 From modernity to late modernity -some old and new issues in theorizing youth crime: lawlessness, modernity and social change - an historical appraisal, G. Pearson on the invisibility of the female delinquent peer group, A. Campbell the logic of definition in criminology - purposes and methods for defining "gangs", R. Ball and G.D. Curry grasping at straws - the idealization of the material in liberal conceptions of youth crime, S. Hall teenage kicks - urban narratives of dissent not deviance, C. Stanley mobilization through interpellation - James Bulger, juvenile crime and the construction of moral panic, C. Hay wheelin' and stelin', T. Jefferson in search of the high life - drugs, crime, masculinities and consumption, M. Collinson. Volume 2: Part 1 The "delinquent" and the "gang" in history: innocence and experience - the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-19th century, M. May tribute, turf, honour and the American street gang, C. Adamson. Part 2 From post-War to po