I. The classic descriptions of crime. What is a gang? / Frederick M. Thrasher -- The professional thief / Edwin Sutherland -- Juvenile delinquency and urban areas / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay -- White-collar criminality / Edwin Sutherland -- Our law-abiding law-breakers / James A. Wallerstein and Clement J. Wyle -- The criminal and his victim / Hans von Hentig -- Victim-precipitated criminal homicide / Marvin Wolfgang -- Criminal victimization in the United States / Phillip H. Ennis -- Violent crime : homicide, assault, rape, robbery / National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence -- Delinquency in a birth cohort / Marvin E. Wolfgang, Thorsten Sellin and Robert Figlio -- Social change and crime : a routine activity approach / Lawrence E. Cohen and Marcus Felson -- II. Theories of causation of crime. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- The normal and the pathological / Émile Durkheim -- Class conflict and law / Karl Marx -- The new criminology / Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young -- Class, state, and crime / Richard Quinney -- Criminal man / Gina Lombroso-Ferrero.
The Jukes : a study in crime, pauperism, and heredity / Richard Dugdale -- Feeble-mindedness / H.H. Goddard -- The American criminal / Ernest A. Hooton -- The individual delinquent / William Healy -- Wayward youth / August Aichorn -- Suicide / Émile Durkheim -- Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton -- Culture, conflict and crime / Thorsten Sellin -- Differential systems of values / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay -- The content of the delinquent subculture / Albert K. Cohen -- Lower class culture as a gendering milieu of gang delinquency / Walter B. Miller -- Techniques of neutralization / Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza -- Differential association / Edwin H. Sutherland -- A differential association-reinforcement theory of criminal behavior / Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers -- Delinquency and opportunity / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- Unraveling juvenile delinquency / Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck -- Attachment to social groups / Émile Durkheim -- A control theory of delinquency / Travis Hirschi -- The dramatization of evil / Frank Tannenbaum -- Primary and secondary deviation / Edwin Lemert -- Outsiders / Howard S. Becker.
III. The social response to crime. On crimes and punishments / Cesare Beccaria -- The law of vagrancy / William J. Chambliss -- Social defence / Marc Ancel -- Two models of the criminal process / Herbert L. Packer -- Violence and the police / William A. Westley -- A sketch of the policeman's "working personality" / Jerome H. Skolnick -- Police control of juveniles / Donald J. Black and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment / George L. Kelling [and others] -- The deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault / Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk -- Punishment and social structure / Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer -- On penitentiary system in the United States and its application in France / Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville -- The American reformatory prison system / Zebulon Reed Brockway -- Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault -- Prisonization / Donald Clemmer -- The pains of imprisonment / Gresham M. Sykes -- The inmate social system / Gresham M. Sykes and Sheldon L. Messinger -- The Chicago Area Project : a 25-year assessment / Solomon Kobrin.