SOCIOLOGY 517 DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL:
CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY
Spring 2015
Professor Ross L. Matsueda
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This seminar will cover recent theories of crime and
deviance. It will focus on a mix of
classical and contemporary criminological theories that have generated
productive empirical research. We will
emphasize operationalizing theories and examining them empirically, using
quantitative data, qualitative data, or a mix of each. An important objective of the course is to
introduce students to significant theoretical problems that can be addressed
empirically, and introduce some key methodological issues. There are no formal prerequisites for the
course, but it is recommended that students have
exposure to a basic criminology course and basic methods (including research
design and multiple regression analysis).
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
·
In this seminar I
will try to expose you to theories of crime and deviance that have generated
empirical research programs. In a
ten-week course, we obviously can only touch on a small number of topics, and I have tried to identify lines of research in the study of
crime and deviance that are recent, important, and productive.
·
A main objective of the seminar is to help
you to evaluate contemporary criminological theories and assess empirical
research on theory. I
will help you navigate empirical research conducted by some of the best
scholars in criminology by discussing both formal and informal standards of the
field.
·
The seminar is also
designed to help you develop your own style of research. One of the best ways of doing so is to
examine the styles of top researchers.
What kinds of questions do they address?
How sociological are they? How do
they operationalize theoretical concepts?
What data and methods do they use?
What conclusions do they draw?
·
This seminar, like other graduate seminars,
will also help you make the transition from student to independent
researcher/scholar. This includes professional
socialization into the ways of academia, as well as tips on specific tasks of
academicians, such as preparing talks and power point slides, reviewing
articles for journals, interpreting journal reviews, editor letters, and
funding agency reviews, responding to such reviews, and writing letters of
recommendation for others.
Website http://faculty.washington.edu/matsueda/courses/517/web517.htm
Syllabus Course
Syllabus
Time & Location Thursday 3:30-5:20pm in 409 Savery Hall
Instructor Ross L. Matsueda matsueda@uw.edu
Office Hours 227 Savery Hall,
Monday & Tuesday 12:00-1:00pm and by appointment
Required Books Sampson, Robert J.
2012. Great American
City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Kubrin, Charis E.,
Thomas D. Stucky, and Marvin D. Krohn. 2009. Researching Theories of Crime and Deviance. New York: Oxford University Press.
Readings
Kubrin, Charis E., Thomas D. Stucky,
and Marvin D. Krohn. 2009. Researching Theories of Crime and Deviance. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 2.
Nagin,
Daniel S. 2013. “Deterrence: A Review of the
Evidence by a Criminologist for Economists.” Annual Review of Economics 5:83-105.
Matsueda,
Ross L. 2013. “Rational Choice Research in
Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework.” Pp. 283-321 in The
Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research.
Edited by R. Wittek, T.A.B. Snijders, and V.
Nee. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Laura
Dugan and Erica Chenoweth. 2012.
“Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected
Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel.” American
Sociological Review 77: 597-624.
Matsueda, Ross L., Derek A. Kreager, and David Huizinga. 2006. “Deterring
Delinquents: A Rational Choice Model of
Theft and Violence.” American
Sociological Review 71:95-122.
Sutherland,
Edwin H. 1947. Principles of Criminology. Chapter 1. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott.
Matsueda,
Ross L. 2006. “Differential Social Organization,
Collective Action, and Crime.”
Crime, Law and Social Change 46:3-33.
Hirschi, Travis. 1969. Causes of
Delinquency. Berkeley:
University of California Press, Chapters 1 & 2.
Gottfredson, Michael R., and Travis Hirschi. 1990. The General Theory of Crime.
Palo Alto: Stanford University
Press, Chapter 5 (pp. 85-120).
Matsueda,
Ross L. 1982. “Testing Control Theory and
Differential Association: A Causal
Modeling Approach.” American
Sociological Review 47:489-504.
Sampson,
Robert J., and John H. Laub. 1990. "Crime and Deviance over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social
Bonds." American Sociological
Review 55:609-27.
Laub, John H., and Robert J. Sampson. 2006. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard., Chapters
3, 6, 7, 9 & 10.
Giordano,
Peggy C., Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Jennifer L.
Rudolph. 2002. “Gender,
Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory
of Cognitive Transformation.” American
Journal of Sociology 107:990-1064.
Moffitt,
Terrie E. 1993. “Adolescent-Limited and
Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy.” Psychological Review 100: 674-701.
Sampson, Robert J., John H. Laub, and
Christopher Wimer. 2006. “Does
Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual
Approach to Within-Individual Causal Effects.” Criminology
44:465-508.
Sampson,
Robert J., and William J. Wilson. 1994. "Race, Crime and Urban
Inequality." In
Crime and Inequality. Edited by
J. Hagan and R. Peterson. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Sampson, Robert J. 2011. Great American City:
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press, Chapter 2 (pp.
31-49) and Chapter 5, pp. 97-120, Chapter 12, pp. 287-308 and Chapter 13, pp.
309-328.
Quillian, Lincoln. 1999. “Migration Patterns and the Growth of High-Poverty Neighborhoods,
1970-1990” American Journal of Sociology 105:1-37.
Harding,
David J. 2003. “Counterfactual Models of
Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood
Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenage Pregnancy.” American Journal of Sociology 3:676-719.
Burt,
Callie Harbin, Ronald L. Simons, and Frederick X. Gibbons. 2012. “Racial Discrimination, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, and
Crime: A Micro-sociological Model of Risk and Resilience.” American Sociological Review 77:648-67.
Shaw,
Clifford R., and Henry H. McKay. 1969 [1942]. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Revised Edition. Chapters 6 & 7.
Sampson, Robert J. 2011. Great American City:
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press, Chapter 7, pp.
149-178-120, Chapter 8 (pp. 179-209), and Chapter 9 (pp. 210-233).
Sampson,
Robert J. and Stephen W. Raudenbush.
1999. “Systematic Social Observation of
Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods.”
American Journal of Sociology 105(3): 603-651.
Sampson,
Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. Neighborhoods and
Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy. Science
277:918-24.
Lyons,
Christopher. 2007. “Community
(Dis)Organization and Racially Motivated Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 113:815-63.
Merton,
Robert K. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie.” American Sociological Review 3:672-82.
Cloward, Richard A., and Lloyd E. Ohlin. 1960. Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquency Gangs. New York: Free
Press, Chapters 6-7 (pp. 144-186).
Anderson,
Elijah. 1998. The Social Ecology
of Youth Violence. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 24:65-104.
Kirk,
David S., and Andrew V. Papachristos. 2011. “Cultural Mechanisms
and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence,” American Journal of Sociology
116:1190-1233.
Agnew,
Robert, Timothy Brezina, John Paul Wright, and
Francis T. Cullen. 2002. “Strain,
Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory” Criminology
40:43-72.
Decker,
Scott H., and Barrik Van Winkle. 1996. Life in the Gang: Family,
Friends, and Violence. New York:
Cambridge University Press, Chapters 2-6.
Klein,
Malcolm W. and Cheryl L. Maxson. 2006. Street Gang Patterns and Policies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Chapters
4-6.
Thornberry,
Terence P., Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Carolyn A. Smith, and Kimberly Tobin. 2003. Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental
Perspective. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4-6 & 9.
Papachristos, Andrew V., David Hureau,
and Anthony A. Braga. 2013. “The
Corner and the Crew: The Infuence of Geography and
Social Networks on Gang Violence,” American Sociological Review
78:417-447.
Thrasher, Fredrick M. 1927. The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
Chapters 15-19 (pp. 277-408).
Daly,
Kathleen and Meda M. Chesney-Lind. 1988. “Feminism and Criminology.” Justice
Quarterly 5: 497-538.
Miller,
Jody and Christopher Mullins. 2006. “The
Status of Feminist Theories in Criminology.” Pp.
217-250 in Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory.
Advances in Criminological Theory, Vol. 15, edited by F.T. Cullen, J.P. Wright, and K.R.
Blevins. New Brunswick: Transaction.
Lauritsen, Janet L., Karen Heimer
and James P. Lynch. 2009. “Trends
in the Gender Gap in Violent Offending: New Evidence from the National Crime
Victimization Surveys.” Criminology 47:361-399.
Heimer, Karen, and Stacy De Coster. 1999. “The Gendering of
Violent Delinquency.” Criminology
37:277-317.
Schilt, Kristen, and Laurel Westbrook. 2009. “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: ‘Gender Normals,’
Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality. Gender & Society 23:440-464.
Becker,
Howard S. 1963. Outsiders. New
York: Free Press.
Matsueda,
Ross L. 1992. “Reflected Appraisals, Parental
Labeling, and Delinquency: Specifying a Symbolic Interactionist Theory.” American Journal
of Sociology 97: 1577-1611.
Matthew
Desmond and Nicol Valdez. 2013. “Unpolicing the Urban Poor:
Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women.” American Sociological Review 78:117-141.
Goffman,
Alice. 2009. “On the Run:
Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto.”
American Sociological Review 74:339-357.
Pager,
Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. “Discrimination in a
Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.”
American Sociological Review 74: 777-99.
Miscellaneous
Further Reading:
Nagin, Daniel S. 1998. “Criminal
Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century.” Pp. 1-42 in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 23, edited by Michael
Tonry.
Chicago: University of Chicago.
McCarthy,
Bill. 2002. “New Economics of Sociological
Criminology.” Annual Review of Sociology 28:417-42.
Tonry, Michael.
2008.
“Learning from the Limitations of Deterrence Research.” Crime and Justice 37:279-311
Small,
Mario Luis. 2002. “Culture,
Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a
Latino Housing Project” American Journal
of Sociology 108:1-54.
Krivo, Lauren J., and Ruth D. Peterson. 1996.
“Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime.” Social
Forces 75:619-48.
Wilson and Kelling. 1982. “Broken
Windows: The Police and Neighborhood
Safety.”
Keizer, Kees, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Linda Steg.
2008. "The Spreading of Disorder." Science 322:1681-1685.
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