CRIM1004 Theoretical Criminology

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- Crime and criminology (provides an overview of the theories)
- American homicide (2nd ed. ch. 4)
- Introduction to Criminological Theory (Contemporary deterrence theories P. 45 although whole chapter has relevant info about the theory)
- Handbook on Crime and Deviance (ch.9 Strain theory)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice (ch. 36 strain theory and crime)
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Classical
- Deconstructing Criminology’s Origin Stories
Strain
- Specifying the Effect of Social Welfare Expenditures on Homicide and Suicide

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Classical
- Inequality, concentrated disadvantage, and homicide: towards a multi-level theory of economic inequality and crime
- Testing Hirschi's integration of social control and rational choice
- Body dismemberment in sexual homicide cases: lust murder or rational decision

Strain
- A Community-level Test of General Strain Theory (GST) in Mexico
- Homicide and Inequality in “The Murder Capital”

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Classical
- Pioneers in Criminology VII--Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Criminological study on historical overview of capital punishment/death penalty
- Arguments on death penalty: Theoretical base of classical school of criminology
- How much do we really know about criminal deterrence
- Beccaria on Discounting Intentions in Adjudicating Punishments for Crimes
- Beyond Beccaria: Diverse Criticism of the Death Penalty in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries

Strain
- A general strain theory of intimate partner homicide
- Shared Struggles? Cumulative Strain Theory and Public Mass Murderers From 1990 to 2014
- Social support and homicide: a cross-national test of an emerging criminological theory
- Illustrating The Victim Offender Overlap Utilizing The General Strain Theory With Females That Committed Murder

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This site provides national statitstics on homicide in Australia. Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

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- Handbook of homicide

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- Crime and criminology (provides an overview of the theories)
- Feminist Criminology by Renzetti (search within book for "sexual assault". Interesting points made on p.40)
- The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change (search within book for "sexual assault")
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- Understanding Sexual Offending

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Box 1 (contains exact phrase): feminist theory
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- Sexual Assault Victimization, Fear of Sexual Assault, and Self-Protective Behaviors
- Does sexual violence victimization contribute to deviant behavior? A test of general strain theory
- Assessing general strain theory and measures of victimization, 2002–2018
- Can general strain theory be used to explain recidivism among registered sex offenders?
- A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime

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Feminist
- A Feminist Perspective on Sexual Assault
- Different ways of conceptualizing sex/gender in feminist theory and their implications for criminology
- Does feminist theory matter
Strain
- Strains, Psychological Strains, and Sexual Assault Perpetration: Investigating (Psychologically-informed) General Strain Theory
- Do societal reactions lead to increased experiences of shame and strain for registered female sex offenders
- Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control (whole book loads)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020, August 28). Sexual assault in Australia

Australian .Institute of Health and Welfare. (2024, April 12). Sexual violence

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- Crime and criminology (provides an overview of the theories. See republication theory for info on restorative justice)
- Introduction to Criminological Theory (ch. 9 - labeling theory)
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Labelling
- “That's not who I am:” How offenders commit violent acts and reject authentically violent selves
- Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement
- Labeling, life chances, and adult crime

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- Restorative Justice, Youth Violence, and Policing: A Review of the Evidence
- The labeling of convicted felons and its consequences for recidivism
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2024, March 20). Crime victimisation, Australia

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- Crime and criminology (provides an overview of the theories. See republication theory for info on restorative justice)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice (ch. 26 & 36)
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Restorative justice
- Introducing Restorative Justice in The Criminal Justice System as An Alternative Approach to Addressing the Shoplifting Crisis in Western Australia
- Social capital, rehabilitation, tradition: Support for restorative justice in Japan and Australia
- The morality of evidence: the second annual lecture for Restorative Justice: An International Journal
- Restorative justice: The real story
Strain Theory
- The relationship between injustice and crime: A general strain theory approach
- Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote indigenous Australia
- When criminal coping is likely: An examination of conditioning effects in general strain theory
- Strain, Crime, and Contingencies

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Restorative Justice
- Application of Restorative Justice in the Crime of Theft
- The Concept of Law Enforcement of the Crime of Theft through a Restorative Justice Approach
Strain
- General strain theory and delinquency

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2024, March 20). Crime victimisation, Australia

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- For Whom Do Sanctions Deter and Label?

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Classical/Rational Choice
- The empirical status of deterrence theory: A meta-analysis
- Using Bounded Rationality to Fight Crime
- The Myth of the Fully Informed Rational Actor
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2024, March 20). Majority of car thefts happen at home.

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- “They are kids, they’re making bad choices, but they are not bad kids”