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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