Social learning theory has remained one of the core criminological paradigms over the last
four decades. Although a large body of scholarship has emerged testing various …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

The social movement‐countermovement relationship is most often one of competition. The
subject of police reform has become more complex after calls for greater restrictive police …

According to general strain theory (GST), individuals who experience strain or stress often
become upset and sometimes cope with crime. This simple idea is at the core of GST …

After providing an overview of climate change and its effects, this article draws on the
leading crime theories to discuss the potential impact of climate change on crime. It is …

For over a half century, criminology has been dominated by a paradigm—adolescence‐
limited criminology (ALC)—that has privileged the use of self‐report surveys of adolescents …

Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists
use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including …

The concept of critical criminology–that crime and the present-day processes of
criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society–is of more relevance today than it …

Social disorganization theory has emerged as the critical framework for understanding the
relationship between community characteristics and crime in urban areas. This chapter …

As technology has become an ever-present facet in the lives of young people, they have
become reliant on it to form and maintain relationships. It has also helped facilitate negative …