SOCIOLOGY 587 SPECIAL TOPICS IN DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL:
RECENT ISSUES IN CRIMINOLOGY
Fall 2019
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/587/web587.htm
Syllabus Course
Syllabus
Time & Location Tuesday 4:30-6:20pm in 409 Savery
Hall
Instructor Ross L. Matsueda matsueda@uw.edu
Office Hours 227 Savery Hall,
Thursday 3-4pm and by appointment
Readings
Week 2 Rational Choice and Deterrence
*Pogarsky,
Greg, Sean Patrick Roche, and Justin T. Pickett. 2018. “Criminology
Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral
Economics.” Annual Review of Criminology
1:379-400.
*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.
*Loughran
Thomas A., Raymond Paternoster, Aaron Chalfin A, Theodore Wilson. 2016.
“Can Rational Choice be Considered a General Theory Of Crime? Evidence from
Individual-Level Panel Data”. Criminology
54:86–112.
*Nagin,
Daniel S., Robert M. Solow, and Cynthia Lum. 2015.
Deterrence, Criminal Opportunities, and Police.
Criminology 53:74-100.
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.
Week 3 Analytical Criminology: A Recent Proposal
*Matsueda,
Ross L. 2017. “The 2016 Sutherland Address: ‘Toward an Analytical Criminology:
The Micro-Macro Problem, Causal Mechanisms, and Public Policy.’” Criminology 55:493-519.
*Opp,
Karl-Dieter. 2019. Analytical Criminology:
Integrating Explanations of Crime and Deviant Behavior. Book Manuscript, First Draft. To be published with Routledge in 2020. Chapters 1-9 (pp. 1-231).
Week 4 Criminal Opportunities, Routine Activities,
and Broken Windows
*Cohen,
Lawrence & Marcus Felson. 1979. Social Change
and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach. American Sociological
Review 44 (4): 588-608.
*James
Q.,and George L. Kelling.
1982. "Broken windows." Atlantic
Monthly 249 (3): 29-38.
*Wilcox,
Pamela, Kenneth C. Land, and Scott A. Hunt. 2003. Criminal
Circumstance: A Dynamic Multiconextual Criminal Opportunity Theory. Hawthorne, NY:
Aldine De Gruyter.
Chapter 2, pp. 21-43.
Osgood,
D. Wayne, Janet K. Wilson, Patrick M. O’Malley, Jerald G. Bachman & Lloyd
D. Johnson. 1996. Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior.
American Sociological Review 61 (4): 635-55.
Week 5 Work on Paper Proposals
*Structuring
a Conventional Empirical Social Science Article
Week 6 Life Course and Crime
*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.
Week
7 Race, Inner-City Crime, and
Residential Segregation
*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.
*Peterson,
Ruth D., and Lauren J. Krivo. 2010. Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial
Divide. New York, NY: Russell Sage,
Chapter 2 (pp. 12-49), Chapter 3 (pp. 50-70) and Chapter 4 (pp. 71-90).
*Quillian,
Lincoln. 1999. “Migration Patterns and the Growth of High-Poverty
Neighborhoods, 1970-1990” American Journal of Sociology 105:1-37.
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.
Week
8 Social Disorganization, Collective
Efficacy, and Social Capital
*Shaw,
Clifford R., and Henry H. McKay. 1969 [1942]. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Revised
Edition. Chapters 6 & 7.
*Sampson,
Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997.
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.
Science 277:918-24.
*Sampson,
Robert J. 2011. Great American City:
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press, Chapter 7, pp.
149-178-120.
St.
Jean, Peter K. B. 2007. Pockets of Crime. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
Chapters 2 (pp. 31-56) and 8 (pp. 195-226).
Week
9 Collateral Consequences of
Incarceration
Kirk,
David S., and Sara Wakefield. 2018. “Collateral Consequences of Punishment:
A Critical Review and Path Forward.” Annual
Review of Criminology 1:171–94.
Pettit,
Becky and Bruce Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race
and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review
69:151-69.
Pager,
Devah. 2003. “Mark of a Criminal Record.” American
Journal of Sociology 108:937-75.
Uggen,
Christopher and Jeff Manza. 2002.
"Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon
Disenfranchisement in the
Week
10 Code of the Street, Violence, and Gun
Control
Anderson,
Elijah. 1998. The Social Ecology of Youth Violence. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research
24:65-104.
Jacobs,
James B. 2002. “Conclusion: The “Problem Reconsidered.” Can Gun Control
Work? New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 213-226.
Castillo-Carniglia A, et al. 2019. “California’s Comprehensive
Background Check and Misdemeanor Violence Prohibition Policies and Firearm
Mortality.” Annals of Epidemiology
30:50–56.
Luca, Michael,
Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin. 2017.
“Handgun waiting periods reduce gun
deaths.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (46) 12162-12165.
Ludwig,
Jens. 2017. “Reducing gun violence
in America.” Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. 114 (46) 12097-12099.
Ludwig Jens, Cook Phillip
J. 2000. “Homicide and suicide rates associated with implementation of
the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.” Journal of the American Medical Association 284:585–591.
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
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.
Lyons,
Christopher. 2007. “Community (Dis)Organization and Racially Motivated
Crime.” American Journal of Sociology
113:815-63.
Kirk,
David S., and Andrew V. Papachristos. 2011.
“Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence,” American Journal of Sociology 116:1190-1233.
Pager,
Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski.
2009. “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” American Sociological Review 74: 777-99.
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.