• Introduction: The Bearing of Sociological Theory On Criminological Research (Mathieu Deflem) PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO MODELS IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY ANALYSIS. Work and Crime: Can The Missing Link Be Understood Through Max Webers Protestant Ethic?. (Karl F. Schumann). Truants and the Family: An Empirical Study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence. (Imke Dunkake). Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures. (Sanjay Marwah & Mathieu Deflem). Criminological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead. (Ross L. Matsueda). Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency. (Karen Heimer, Stacy De Coster, & Halime Unal). Commentary to Part I: Theory and Research in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance. (Ronald L. Akers). PART II: CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Identity and Intellectual Work: Biography, Theory and Research on Law Enforcement. (Nigel G. Fielding). Sociological Theory in the Study of Sentencing: Lighthouse for a Traveler Between Continents. (Joachim J. Savelsberg). They Bring You Up To Do Like Your Daddy Done: Stratification Theory, Employment, and Crime. (Robert D. Crutchfield). Emotions, Crime, and Justice: Exploring Durkheimian Themes. (Susanne Karstedt). In Search of Criminologys Epistemological Threshold. (Rene Van Swaaningen). Commentary to Part II: The Fields of Sociology and Criminology. (Fritz Sack).

"In the end, we have to ask whether the book's overall thesis, that sociological theory informs the best criminiological work, is supported. I think, overall, it is..." -Sawyer Sylvester, Department of Sociology, Bates College, for The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 17 No. 2 (February 2007)

• Introduction: The Bearing of Sociological Theory On Criminological Research (Mathieu Deflem) PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO MODELS IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY ANALYSIS. Work and Crime: Can The Missing Link Be Understood Through Max Webers Protestant Ethic?. (Karl F. Schumann). Truants and the Family: An Empirical Study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence. (Imke Dunkake). Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures. (Sanjay Marwah & Mathieu Deflem). Criminological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead. (Ross L. Matsueda). Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency. (Karen Heimer, Stacy De Coster, & Halime Unal). Commentary to Part I: Theory and Research in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance. (Ronald L. Akers). PART II: CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Identity and Intellectual Work: Biography, Theory and Research on Law Enforcement. (Nigel G. Fielding). Sociological Theory in the Study of Sentencing: Lighthouse for a Traveler Between Continents. (Joachim J. Savelsberg). They Bring You Up To Do Like Your Daddy Done: Stratification Theory, Employment, and Crime. (Robert D. Crutchfield). Emotions, Crime, and Justice: Exploring Durkheimian Themes. (Susanne Karstedt). In Search of Criminologys Epistemological Threshold. (Rene Van Swaaningen). Commentary to Part II: The Fields of Sociology and Criminology. (Fritz Sack).

"In the end, we have to ask whether the book's overall thesis, that sociological theory informs the best criminiological work, is supported. I think, overall, it is..." -Sawyer Sylvester, Department of Sociology, Bates College, for The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 17 No. 2 (February 2007)

• Introduction: The Bearing of Sociological Theory On Criminological Research (Mathieu Deflem) PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO MODELS IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY ANALYSIS. Work and Crime: Can The Missing Link Be Understood Through Max Webers Protestant Ethic?. (Karl F. Schumann). Truants and the Family: An Empirical Study of Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence. (Imke Dunkake). Revisiting Merton: Continuities in the Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures. (Sanjay Marwah & Mathieu Deflem). Criminological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead. (Ross L. Matsueda). Opening the Black Box: The Social Psychology of Gender and Delinquency. (Karen Heimer, Stacy De Coster, & Halime Unal). Commentary to Part I: Theory and Research in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance. (Ronald L. Akers). PART II: CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Identity and Intellectual Work: Biography, Theory and Research on Law Enforcement. (Nigel G. Fielding). Sociological Theory in the Study of Sentencing: Lighthouse for a Traveler Between Continents. (Joachim J. Savelsberg). They Bring You Up To Do Like Your Daddy Done: Stratification Theory, Employment, and Crime. (Robert D. Crutchfield). Emotions, Crime, and Justice: Exploring Durkheimian Themes. (Susanne Karstedt). In Search of Criminologys Epistemological Threshold. (Rene Van Swaaningen). Commentary to Part II: The Fields of Sociology and Criminology. (Fritz Sack).

"In the end, we have to ask whether the book's overall thesis, that sociological theory informs the best criminiological work, is supported. I think, overall, it is..." -Sawyer Sylvester, Department of Sociology, Bates College, for The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 17 No. 2 (February 2007)