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• Abadinsky, Howard. 2013. Organized Crime. 10th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Becker, Howard S. 1963. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Free Press.
• Briggs, Steven M., and Joan Friedman. 2009. Criminology For Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Cavadino, Michael, James Dignan, and George Mair. 2013. The Penal System: An Introduction. 5th ed. Los Angeles: SAGE.
• Cohen, Albert Kircidel. 1955. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. New York: Free Press.
• Croall, Hazel. 2011. Crime and Society in Britain. 2nd ed. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman.
• Davies, Pamela, Peter Francis, and Chris Greer. 2007. Victims, Crime and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Foucault, Michel. 1975. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Penguin.
• Garland, David. 1990. Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory. Oxford: Clarendon.
• Hester, Stephen, and Peter Eglin. 1992. A Sociology of Crime. London: Routledge.
• Ianni, Francis A. J., and Elizabeth Reuss Ianni. 1972. A Family Business: Kinship and Social Control in Organized Crime. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• LaPiere, Richard T. 1954. A Theory of Social Control. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Maguire, Mike, Rodney Morgan, and Robert Reiner, eds. 2002. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon.
• Mars, Gerald. 1982. Cheats at Work. Boston: Allen & Unwin.
• Marsh, Ian, John Cochrane, and Gaynor Melville. 2004. Criminal Justice: An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice. London: Routledge.
• McLaughlin, Eugene, and John Muncie, eds. 2001. Controlling Crime. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Melossi, Dario. 1998. The Sociology of Punishment: Socio-structural Perspectives. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.
• Newburn, Tim. 2003. Crime and Criminal Justice Policy. 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman.
• Park, Robert Ezra, and Ralph H. Turner. 1967. On Social Control and Collective Behavior: Selected Papers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Pearson, G. 1983. Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears. London: Macmillan.
• Peterson, Ruth D., and Lauren Joy Krivo. 2010. Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-spatial Divide. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Reiman, Jeffrey H. 2007. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. 8th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Reiner, Robert. 2010. The Politics of the Police. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rusche, Georg, and Otto Kirchheimer. 1939. Punishment and Social Structure. New York: Russell & Russell.
• Siegel, Larry J., and Clemens Bartollas. 2011. Corrections Today. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
• Siegel, Larry J., and John L. Worrall. 2012. Introduction to Criminal Justice. 13th ed. Belmont: CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
• Siegel, Larry J., and John L. Worrall. 2013. Essentials of Criminal Justice. 8th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
• Smith, David J., and Jeremy Gray. 1985. The Police and People in London: the PSI Report. Aldershot: Gower.
• Taylor, Ian, Paul Walton, and Jock Young. 1975. Critical Criminology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Valier, Claire. 2002. Theories of Crime and Punishment. Harlow: Longman.
• Walker, Nigel. 1991. Why Punish? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Western, Bruce. 2007. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Young, Jock, and Roger Mathews, eds. 1992. Rethinking Criminology: The Realist Debate. London: SAGE.
• Zimring, Franklin, and Gordon Hawkins. 1997. Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

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