Criminological Thought

Criminological Thought: Pioneers Past and Present explores criminological theory by introducing readers to fifteen leading historical and contemporary crime theorists. Each chapter of the text highlights one thinker, and features a biographical sketch, an overview of his basic assumptions, and an explanation of his key ideas. Critiques of each theory and a bibliography of primary and other sources are also included in each chapter.

Featured criminological pioneers include:

Cesare Beccaria

Cesare Lombroso

David Emile Durkheim 

Sigmund Freud 

Robert Ezra Park 

William Herbert Sheldon

Edwin Hardin Sutherland

Walter Cade Reckless

Robert King Merton

Albert Kircidel Cohen

Lloyd Ohlin

Gresham M'Cready Sykes

Erving Goffman

Howard Becker 

Earl Richard Quinney