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Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Ruth Ann Triplett
Part I
Key Ideas, Thinkers, and Moments 13
Section 1 Precursors to Criminology as an Academic Discipline 15
1 Criminal Entryways in the Writing of Cesare Beccaria 17
Matthew P. Unger, Jean‐Philippe Crete, and George Pavlich
2 Researching Crime and Criminals in the 19th Century 32
Peter Becker
Section 2 Europe and the Founding of Criminology 49
3 Laughing at Lombroso: Positivism and Criminal Anthropology in
Historical Perspective 51
Paul Knepper
4 Criminology in 19th‐Century France: Mainstays of the French
“Environmental” Tradition 67
Bruce DiCristina
5 Conflict and Crime: Marx, Engels, Marxist/Radical Criminology,
and the Explanation of Crime 84
Michael J. Lynch
Section 3 Developing the Theoretical Foundation 103
6 The Extensive Legacy of Symbolic Interactionism in Criminology 105
Jeffery T. Ulmer
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7 The Chicago School and Criminology 123
Wim Hardyns and Lieven J. R. Pauwels
8 Anomie, Strain, and Opportunity Structure: Robert K. Merton’s
Paradigm of Deviant Behavior 140
Mathieu Deflem
9 Differential Association, Differential Social Organization, and
White‐Collar Crime: Sutherland Defines the Field 156
John M. Eassey and Marvin D. Krohn
10 The Foundation and Re‐emergence of Classical Thought in
Criminological Theory: A Brief Philosophical History 173
Ray Paternoster and Daren Fisher
11 Crime, Deviance, and Social Control: Travis Hirschi and His Legacy 189
Cesar J. Rebellon and Paul Anskat
Section 4 Critique and Response 207
12 The Berkeley School of Criminology: The Intellectual Roots and Legacies 209
Randolph R. Myers and Tim Goddard
13 Let Fury Have the Hour: The Radical Turn in British Criminology 222
Travis Linnemann and Kyra A. Martinez
14 Three Strikes and You’re Out: A Short but Modern History of
Biosocial Criminology 237
John Paul Wright, Kevin M. Beaver, Jamie M. Gajos, and Catherine Sacarellos
15 Western Feminist Criminologies: Critiquing “Malestream”
Criminology and Beyond 255
Kaitlyn J. Selman and Molly Dunn
16 Criminalizing Race, Racializing Crime: Assessing the Discipline of
Criminology through a Historical Lens 272
Kideste Wilder Yusef and Tseleq Yusef
17 Shaming, Reintegration, and Restorative Justice: Braithwaite in Australia,
New Zealand, and around the Globe 289
Hee Joo Kim and Jurg Gerber
Part II
Criminology across the Globe: The Organization and Structure of
Criminology as an Academic Discipline 307
18 Criminology in Argentina, 1870–1960 309
Ricardo D. Salvatore
19 Criminology in Australia: A Global South Perspective 321
Elaine Fishwick and Marinella Marmo
20 Criminology in Belgium: Crossing Borders, Reaching out Globally 334
Tom Daems and Stephan Parmentier
Contents ix
21 Criminology in Brazil: Beyond “Made‐in‐the‐North” Criminological Narratives 345
Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt and Marília Montenegro Pessoa de Mello
22 Criminology in Canada: The Context of Its Criminology 360
Paul Brantingham, Patricia Brantingham, and Bryan Kinney
23 Criminology in China 377
Bill Hebenton and Susyan Jou
24 Criminology in Germany and the Gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 392
Kirstin Drenkhahn
25 Criminology in Lithuania: Restoring Paradigms 406
Aleksandras Dobryninas
26 Criminology in Russia: From Criminal Law to Sociolegal Inquiry 422
Olga Semukhina
27 Criminology in the United States: Contexts, Institutions, and
Knowledge in Flux 437
Joachim J. Savelsberg
Index 453
Notes on Contributors
Paul Anskat is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of New Hampshire and
affiliated faculty at Emerson College, USA. His research interests include social stratifica-
tion, race and ethnicity, and gender inequality. He is currently working on an analysis of
racial and gendered discourse in internet comment sections.
Kevin M. Beaver is Judith Rich Harris Professor of Criminology at Florida State University
in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a visiting distinguished professor
in the Center for Social and Humanities Research at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on the biosocial underpinnings to antisocial behaviors.
Peter Becker teaches modern history at the University of Vienna, Austria. His main fields
of research include the history of the Habsburg Empire from the late 18th century, the
history of European policing and security systems of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the
history of criminology. He is particularly interested in the transformation of state, politics,
and society in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the biologization of the social, and in the con-
nection of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states to the new international regime
of the late 19th and the 20th centuries. His publications include: Verderbnis und Entartung.
Zur Geschichte der Kriminologie des 19. Jahrhunderts als Diskurs und Praxis (Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002); Dem Täter auf der Spur. Eine Geschichte der Kriminalistik
(Darmstadt: Primus, 2005); Sprachvollzug im Amt. Kommunikation und Verwaltung im
Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. (editor) (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011); The Criminals
and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. (ed. together
with Richard Wetzell) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Little Tools of
Knowledge: Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices (ed. together with
William Clark) (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001); “The Neurosciences
and Criminology: How New Experts have Moved into Public Policy and Debate,” in: Kerstin
Brückweh, Dirk Schumann, Richard Wetzell, Benjamin Ziemann (Eds.), Engineering
Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880–1980
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 119–138).
Patricia Brantingham is Director of the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies
(ICURS) and Co‐director of the ICURS Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, British
Columbia, Canada. She is also a Professor of Criminology. Her research interests include
Notes on Contributors xi
pattern theory, environmental criminology, situational crime prevention, criminal justice
planning, and policy evaluation. She has received international recognition for her work on
offender target selection processes and geography of crime. Her mathematical work on the
distribution of crime in regard to the structure of neighborhoods is fundamental to envi-
ronmental criminology. Professor Brantingham is the author/editor of numerous books
and monographs as well as more than 100 articles and scientific papers. Her current research
focuses on patterns of crime at shopping malls and transit systems, the distribution of
crime on road networks, and the location of crime in complex urban ecologies. She spent
four years as Director of Program Evaluation at the Department of Justice, Canada, in the
mid‐1980s.
Paul Brantingham is Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, British
Columbia, Canada. In 1992, he served as Director of the Simon Fraser Centre for Canadian
Studies. He was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies during the 1980s.
He is the author/editor of more than 20 books and monographs, and more than 100 articles
and scientific papers. He is best known for his research on crime analysis and prevention,
including how the physical environment affects incidence and fear of crime. He was one of
the co‐developers of the primary/secondary/tertiary model of crime prevention. An expert
in legal aid, Professor Brantingham has served as special consultant to the Canadian
Department of Justice for more than 10 years. His current research focuses on victimization
on college campuses, the geography of persistent offending, and the study of crime in com-
plex urban ecologies. Professor Brantingham is a member of the California Bar Association.
Jean‐Philippe Crete is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University
of Alberta, Canada. His research focuses on the intersections of culture, criminal law, and
punishment in the Canadian context. He completed his MA at Carleton University with a
thesis entitled: “A Disciplined Healing: The New Language of Indigenous Imprisonment in
Canada.” His PhD dissertation examines the historical emergence of penology as a cor-
rectional science in Canada since Confederation.
Tom Daems studied criminology and political science at KU Leuven, Belgium, and the
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is currently Associate Professor
of Criminology at Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven.
Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, USA. His
teaching and research specialties include law and social control, policing, popular culture,
and sociological theory. He has authored dozens of articles and three books, including The
Policing of Terrorism (2010) and Sociology of Law (2008), and has also edited about a dozen
volumes, including works in the areas of criminological theory, criminal justice and legal
institutions, international policing, and terrorism.
Bruce DiCristina is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of
North Dakota, USA. His research centers on the history of criminology and the philosophical
foundations of criminological inquiry. He is the editor of The Birth of Criminology (Wolters
Kluwer) and has articles appearing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology,
British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Theoretical
Criminology.
Aleksandras Dobryninas is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and
the Head of the Centre for the Criminology Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius
University, Lithuania. Graduating from Vilnius University as a mathematician, he holds
