Table of Contents:
  • A social behaviorist's perspective on integration of theories of crime and deviance / Ronald L. Akers
  • Exploring alternatives to integrated theory / Travis Hirschi
  • Reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of theoretical integration / Terence P. Thornberry
  • A theory of mental illness : an attempted integration of biological, psychological and social variables / Walter R. Gove and Michael Hughes
  • Cognitive consistency in deviance causation : a psychological elaboration of an integrated systems model / Ronald A. Farrell
  • Theory integration versus model building / Margaret Farnworth
  • Political decisionmaking and ecological models of delinquency : conflict and consensus / Robert J. Bursik, Jr.
  • Towards an integrated theory of criminal behavior / Charles F. Wellford
  • The discipline as data : resolving the theoretical crisis in criminology / Victoria L. Swigert
  • A theoretical approach to integration / Thomas J. Bernard
  • Prospects for synthetic theory : a consideration of macro-level criminological activity / Charles R. Tittle
  • Three perennial issues in the sociology of deviance / Jack P. Gibbs
  • Deviance and differentiation / Robert F. Meier
  • Micro- and macro-structures of delinquency causation and a power-control theory of gender and delinquency / John Hagan
  • Strategies for cross-level theorizing : comments on the Meier and Hagan papers / Craig B. Little
  • Exploring integration of theoretical levels of explanation : notes on gang delinquency / James F. Short, Jr.
  • Confronting control theory's negative cases / Peggy C. Giordano
  • The challenge and promise of theoretical integration in criminology / Roland Chilton