Criminal Justice: Control Theories
Social Control
A General Theory of Crime by ISBN: 0804717745Publication Date: 1990-03-01Not available at DSC. Request through GIL Express.- Causes of Delinquency byCall Number: HV9096.U5 H56
- Social problems in America; costs and casualties in an acquisitive society byCall Number: HN57 .B65
- Understanding and Preventing Violence byCall Number: eBook available through GALILEO
Sanction Systems
- An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation byCall Number: B1574.B33 I5 1948
In his An Introduction to the Principles and Morals of Legislation (1789), Jeremy Bentham proposes that there are four sources from which pain and pleasure eminate and therefore may be used as a "binding force to any law or rule of conduct." These four sources are: physical, social, religious and political.
Control Theories
The concept that individuals refrain from crime because they fear the negative consequences or the cost of penalties. Among the control theories: sanction systems, deterrence theory, rational choice, economies of crime, and social control.
History of Punishment
Deterrence Theory
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment by Call Number: HV8694 .G76 1998ISBN: 0874368715Publication Date: 1998-08-01- Leviathan byCall Number: JC153 .H65
- On Crimes and Punishments byCall Number: HV6025 .B38
Rational Choice
Cornish and Clarke proposed in their book The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending that the individual possesses a full understanding of risks and possible benefits of his/her choices and is capable of making a rational choice.
- The Reasoning Criminal byISBN: 0387962727Publication Date: 1986-06-01Available to order via GIL Express
Violence, Aggression, and Coercive Actions by Call Number: HM 291 .T375 1994ISBN: 1557982570Publication Date: 1994-10-01
Rational Choice and Security Studies by Call Number: JZ5588 .R38 2000ISBN: 0262522756Publication Date: 2000-07-18
