TY - BOOK AU - Messner,Steven F. AU - Krohn,Marvin D. AU - Liska,Allen E. TI - Theoretical integration in the study of deviance and crime: problems and prospects T2 - SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice SN - 079140000X AV - HM291 .T38 1989 U1 - 302.542 19 PY - 1989/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Deviant behavior KW - Congresses KW - Criminal behavior KW - Criminology KW - Methodology KW - Congress KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-338) and index; 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 ER -