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The Glass is at Least Half Full: Reflections on the Internationalization of Criminology
The purpose of this essay is to offer reflections on the extent to which and the ways in which the production of criminological knowledge has (or has not) become more “international.” With respect to extent, I...
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Social Disorganization Theory in Contemporary China: a Review of the Evidence and Directions for Future Research
This paper assesses and synthesizes the cumulative results from the empirical research on social disorganization and crime-related phenomena at the neighborhood level in China. Our review identified 17 relevan...
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What They Don’t Know Says A Lot: Residents’ Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China
Our study questions the common assumption of random DK responses in criminology survey data and emphasizes the importance of understanding and handling DK for gaining substantive criminological knowledge. It e...
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Institutional Anomie Theory: An Evolving Research Program
This chapter presents the current evolving research program of Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT)—originally a macro-social theory of crime that incorporates the potentially destructive tendencies inherent in m...
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Korean Criminology: Juvenile Delinquency and Self-Control Theory
Empirical research in South Korea was largely focused on differential association theory and social learning theory before 1989 but, since the 1990s, studies have increasingly been located within the theoretic...
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When West Meets East: Generalizing Theory and Expanding the Conceptual Toolkit of Criminology
This paper considers the ways in which established criminological theories born and nurtured in the West might need to be transformed to be applicable to the context of East Asian societies. The analyses focus...
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Breaking rules: The social and situational dynamics of young people's urban crime
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When West Meets East: Generalizing Theory and Expanding the Conceptual Toolkit of Criminology
This paper considers the ways in which established criminological theories born and nurtured in the West might need to be transformed to be applicable to the context of East Asian societies. The analyses focus...
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Social Institutions, Theory Development, and the Promise of Comparative Criminological Research
This paper highlights the ways in which recent comparative criminological research has begun to advance theory development by directing systematic attention to the role of institutional structure. The overarch...
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The Crime Drop in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the Economy and Imprisonment on American and European Burglary Rates
A dramatic drop in violent and property crime occurred in the USA during the 1990s, leading one analyst to herald the reduction ‘the great American crime decline’ (Zimring 2006a). Whether crime rates were fall...
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Cross-National Homicide Trends in the Latter Decades of the Twentieth Century: Losses and Gains in Institutional Control?
This study explores cross-national trends in homicide rates over the 1950–2005 period. At a descriptive level, we apply spline regression to address the following questions: How prevalent were appreciable, sus...
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Socio-Demographic Correlates of Fear of Crime and the Social Context of Contemporary Urban China
Previous research in the West has established major socio-demographic correlates of fear of crime. The interpretation of these correlates is typically based on the concept of physical or social vulnerability o...
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Institutional Anomie Theory: A Macro-sociological Explanation of Crime
Criminologists have formulated a wide range of explanations for the causes of crime, as reflected in several chapters of this volume. One useful means for classifying these explanations is according to their p...
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Not ‘Islands, Entire of Themselves’: Exploring the Spatial Context of City-level Robbery Rates
The current study examines spatial dependence in robbery rates for a sample of 1,056 cities with 25,000 or more residents over the 2000–2003 period. Although commonly considered in some macro-level research, s...
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A critical review of recent literature on crime and criminal justice in China: research findings, challenges, and prospects (Introduction)
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Criminal victimization in contemporary China: a review of the evidence and challenges for future research
The rapid economic growth in China over recent decades has been accompanied by higher levels of crime, but there have been few studies of the Chinese experience of criminal victimization. A recent victimizatio...
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Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution
A significant positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates has been found in a large number of cross-sectional studies and a few longitudinal analyses; a theoretically interesting interac...
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The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
The possibility that homicides can spread from one geographic area toanother has been entertained for some time by social scientists, yetsystematic efforts to demonstrate the existence, or estimate the strengt...
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School attachment and official delinquency status in the People's Republic of China
This research examines the effect of school attachment on the likelihood of being an officially sanctioned delinquent using data for a sample of youths in Tian**, China. Our statistical analyses are organized...
