Youth and Crime
Student Resources
Explaining Youth Crime I: Positivist Criminologies
Annotated Further Reading
Einstadter, W. and Henry, S. (1995) Criminological Theory. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace.
A comprehensive and accessible theoretical review.
Tierney, J. (1996) Criminology: Theory and Context. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall/ Harvester
An introductory text focusing on historical shifts and resonances.
Downes, D. and Rock, P. (1995) Understanding Deviance, 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
White, R. and Haines, F. (2000) Crime and Criminology, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hopkins Burke, R. (2001) An Introduction to Criminological Theory. Cullompton: Willan.
All clearly illustrate theoretical diversity.
Rutter, M., Giller, H. and Hagell, A. (1998) Anti-social Behaviour by Young People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviews numerous theories and indeed restricts itself to those that are largely positivist in nature.
Farrington, D. and Welsh, B. (2007) Saving Children from a Life of Crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The best example of contemporary risk based positivist and predictive ‘knowledges’.
Matza, D. (1964) Delinquency and Drift. New York: Wiley.
Remains some of the best critiques of positivism in general.
Young, J. (2011) The Criminological Imagination. Cambridge: Polity.
Lays bare the incongruity and failures (and absurdities) of contemporary positivism’s obsession with statistical correlations, soul-less artefacts and abstracted empiricism.
Weblinks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminology
A brief introduction to some of the major positivist and orthodox criminological paradigms.
This site provides a comprehensive bibliography and access to online materials by, and about, Émile Durkheim, considered by many to be ‘the father of sociology’.
www.museocriminologico.it/.htm
The website of the criminological museum in Rome, which holds exhibits and details the work of the Italian School of criminology including Lombroso.
www.internetjournalofcriminology.com
A free online journal carrying a wide range of scholarly articles on criminology, including youth and crime.
The British Society of Criminology with links to various resources including selected proceedings from the society’s annual conferences.
The American Society of Criminology