Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors xi
5. I General Considerations
6. 1 Out of Control? An Introduction to the General Theory of Crime 1
7. 2 Measuring Self-Control 26
8. 3 Age, Sex, and Racial Distributions of Crime 38
9. 4 The Undeveloped Concept of Opportunity 49
10. 5 Parenting and Self-Control 61
11. II Theories of crime
12. 6 Self-Control and Social Learning Theory 75
13. 7 Self-Control, Anomie, and Social Institutions 90
14. 8 On the Compatibility of Social Disorganization and Self-Control 102
15. 9 A Feminist Consideration of Gender and Crime 127
16. III Types of crime
17. 10 Low Self-Control and High Organizational Control: The Paradoxes of White-Collar Crime 143
18. 11 Violent Crime 160
19. 12 Property Crimes 173
20. 13 Drug Use and Criminal Behavior 185
21. IV Concluding thoughts
22. 14 Self-Control: A Hypercritical Assessment 201
23. 15 Critiquing the Critics: The Authors Respond 217
24. Bibliography 233
25. Index 263