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Sociology Reference Guide: Analyzing Crime & -- Social Control -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Court System -- The Police -- Informal & -- Formal Social Control -- Social Exclusion & -- Crime -- Social Disorganization Theory -- Victimless Crime -- White Collar Crime -- Crime Theory: Organized Crime -- Overview of Hate Crimes -- Sexual Assault & -- Rape -- Violent Crime in the U.S. -- Race, Ethnicity, & -- Law Enforcement -- Juvenile Crime in the U.S. -- Gang Membership -- The Prison System -- Criminal Recidivism -- Re-Entering Society from Prison.

""Sociology Reference Guide: Analyzing Crime & Social Control""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Court System""; ""The Police""; ""Informal & Formal Social Control""; ""Social Exclusion & Crime""; ""Social Disorganization Theory""; ""Victimless Crime""; ""White Collar Crime""; ""Crime Theory: Organized Crime""; ""Overview of Hate Crimes""; ""Sexual Assault & Rape""; ""Violent Crime in the U.S.""; ""Race, Ethnicity, & Law Enforcement""; ""Juvenile Crime in the U.S.""; ""Gang Membership""; ""The Prison System""; ""Criminal Recidivism""; ""Re-Entering Society from Prison""

Standard sociology and criminology have not been sufficiently sensitive to the unique characteristics that places have. It has been implicitly assumed that one place (be it a neighborhood, census track, or metropolitan area) is interchangeable with another, given certain demographic and economic variables. This article attempts to recast environmental criminology within a sociological framework known as the "sociology of place." The unequal spatial distribution of crime makes it an ideal candidate for analysis within this sociological framework: crime is universal, yet spatially concentrated; targets everyone, yet not everyone equally; is socially constructed, yet has a very real physical reality to it. The article addresses the important linkage between crime and place.

In this recent history of British sociology, Andrew Halsey suggests an intriguing connection between political economic régimes in the twentieth century and the development of sociology as an academic discipline, dividing British sociology into four periods, 1900-1950, 1950-1967, 1968-1975, and 1975-2000. In this way, by connecting disciplinary developments with contemporaneous régimes of economic regulation, Halsey begins to outline a sociology of sociology. However, although much of Halsey's book is informative, especially his description of the period from 1950-1967 when he personally entered the discipline, Halsey ultimately fails to develop his sociology of the discipline sufficiently, especially after 1967. Although it does not claim to be comprehensive, this essay attempts to develop Halsey's sociology of the discipline.

This volume addresses a variety of issues related to economic crisis in the broadest sense of the term, involving diverse national and international contexts, historical epochs, and a range of problems related to economic life. The chapters in this volume tackle criminologically relevant questions in connection with crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of any aspect of economic life, in general, and economic crisis, in particular. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology and the sociology of crime, deviance, and social control, the chapters are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. In these and all other relevant respects, this book is usefully varied in examining selected dimensions of economic crisis in relation to important questions of crime and crime control. Specific themes discussed include: corporate crime, money laundering, foreclosures, and mortgage fraud. This volume provides timely analyses of the impact of the current economic crisis, innovative perspectives on problems of economy and finance, and criminological insights on often neglected aspects of social life.

AbstractThis essay examines the intersections between urban sociology and criminology in relation to fear of crime. I argue that there is a disconnect between theory and practice when it comes to reducing fear of crime that needs to be resolved in order for the postindustrial city to attract the new middle‐class demographic that is known for embracing and seeking out diversity. Despite the contributions made by environmental criminologists and new urbanists, the most popular explanation of fear of crime and crime reduction, offered by the field of criminology, focuses on reducing quality‐of‐life offenses and incivilities. Yet, these strategies are not known to significantly reduce fear of crime, but rather for purging the urban landscape of its diversity through exclusion.