This tenth volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory
series is dedicated to the work of Albert J. Reiss, Jr. It focuses
on the relationship between crime and social organization that is
so central to his work. This focus rejects a view of crime solely
as the action of atomistic individuals and sees the criminal
justice system as inseparable from its social, political and
organizational context. This perspective has had a resurgence in
recent years, and this volume brings together some of the most
important scholars who have contributed to these developments.
Articles examine the social organization of crime itself, the
context of crime, and the response to crime. The concept of
co-offending, originally developed by Reiss, is explored both as a
way of improving understanding of juvenile offending and as a
framework for understanding patterns of criminal organization
across crime types and the relationship of criminal to licit
organization. Other articles recast social disorganization theory
in light of recent theoretical and empirical developments. They
argue for a version of control theory that incorporates internal,
contextual, and state-focused dimensions. Organizational actors,
both as offenders and as governmental agencies responding to crime,
are explored. Building from Reiss's groundbreaking work on
policing, a group of articles on policing examine organizational
change through reorganization, the adoption of strategies such as
community policing and the increased use of empirical evidence,
complicated by routines, organizational culture and political
constraints. Taken together, these works develop new connections
between dimensions of social organization and renew the social
organization perspective on crime and criminal justice.
Contributors include: Diane Vaughan, Joan McCord, Kevin P. Conway,
Elin Waring, Felton Earls, Beat Mohler, Peter Manning, Stephen
Mastrofski, Lawrence Sherman, David Weisburd, Robert Sampson, David
F. Greenberg, Margaret Kelley, Robin Tamarelli and Jeremy
Travis.
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