Delinquency and drift revisited : the criminology of David Matza and beyond

Author(s)

• Blomberg, Thomas G.
• Cullen, Francis T.
• Carlsson, Christoffer
• Jonson, Cheryl Lero

Bibliographic Information

Delinquency and drift revisited : the criminology of David Matza and beyond

Thomas G. Blomberg ... [et al.], editors

（Advances in criminological theory / edited by William S. Laufer and Freda Adler, v. 21）

Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2018

• : hbk

Note

Other editors: Frank T. Cullen, Christoffer Carlson, Cheryl Lero Jonson

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals. Today, Delinquency and Drift Revisited reminds criminologists that they ignore Matza's writings at their own intellectual peril. Matza's work shows his insights on a range of core criminological issues, such as: the complex nature of culture and its connection to criminality; the extent to which rule-breakers are truly different from the "rest of us"; the importance of focusing on human agency in understanding the subjective side of offending; the interaction of propensity and peer influences in criminal involvement; the role of the state in signifying individuals as deviant and entrapping them in criminal roles; and the processes that lead offenders to desist from crime. This volume was not written to pay homage to Matza, but to show how his ideas remain relevant to criminology today by continuing to question conventional wisdom, by making us pay attention to realities we have overlooked, and by inspiring us to theorize more innovatively.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Part I. Origins 1. David Matza-Criminologist: With New Reflections from David Matza Thomas G. Blomberg 2. Delinquency and Drift: Challenging Criminology Then and Now Travis C. Pratt Part II. Techniques of Neutralization 3. Techniques of Neutralization [reprint] Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza 4. The Current Status of Neutralization Theory Shadd Maruna and Heith Copes Part III. Subterranean Values 5. Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values [reprint] David Matza and Gresham M. Sykes 6. Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values Revisited Timothy Brezina and Robert Agnew 7. White-Collar Crime and Subterranean Values Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen Part IV. Delinquency and Drift 8. Cognitions and Crime: Matza's Ideas in Classic and Contemporary Context Peggy C. Giordano and Jennifer Copp 9. Drifting Out of Crime: Criminal Careers, Maturational Reform, and Desistance Christoffer Carlsson Part V. Becoming Deviant 10. Revisiting Matza's Concepts of Affinity and Affiliation: Lessons for the Study of Peer Influences in Criminology Jean Marie McGloin and Kyle J. Thomas 11. Signification: The State as a Source of Crime Daniel P. Mears and Cheryl Lero Jonson

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Details

• NCID: BB24292138
• ISBN:
  • 9781412865425
• LCCN: 2017005865
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 230 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 364.360973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Matza, David. Delinquency and drift
  • LCSH : Juvenile delinquency
  • LCSH : Criminology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04965239