Joan McCord: Crime and Family

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Seminal essays by a pioneering criminologist, collected for the first time<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592135578&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1878_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Crime and Family</h1> <H2>Selected Essays of Joan McCord</H2> <H2></H2> <h3>Joan McCord, introduction by David Farrington, foreword by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord</h3> <P>cloth 1-59213-557-9 $84.50, Apr 07, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-59213-558-7 $32.95, Apr 07, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-559-5 $32.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 320 pp 6x9 88 tables 15 figures </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This volume is a must-have book for anyone who cares about preventing crime and avoiding harmful programs. The book offers McCord's classic evidence that good intentions can produce disastrous results and that crime prevention should be evaluated no less rigorously than a new and powerful drug."</i> <br><b>Lawrence Sherman</b>, Director, Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, University of Pennsylvania<i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Joan McCord (1930-2004) was one of the most famous, most-respected, and best-loved criminologists of her generation. A brilliant pioneer, Dr. McCord was best known for her work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, the first large-scale, longitudinal experimental study in the field of criminology. The study was among the first to demonstrate unintended harmful effects of a well-meaning prevention program. Dr. McCord's most important essays from this groundbreaking research project are among those included in this volume. <p>McCord also co-wrote, edited, or co-edited twelve volumes and authored or co-authored 127 journal articles and book chapters. She wrote across a broad array of subjects, including delinquency, alcoholism, violence, crime prevention, and criminal theory. This book brings her most important and lasting work together in one place for the first time. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>�[McCord] clearly was a researcher of unbounded energy whose life�s work has added greatly to the corpus of criminological knowledge. This book is an excellent collection of that work. The methodology of her research in the developmental study of crime is both classically rigorous and strikingly inventive.� </i> <br><b><i>The Law and Politics Book Review</i></b> <p><i>�The essays are mostly based on topics close to Joan�s heart: the effects of intervention; the effect of child rearing; punishment and discipline; crime in the family; alcoholism and drunk driving. The book closes with a truly inspiring autobiography and a list of all of her publications.�</i> <br><b><i>Contemporary Sociology </i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p> Foreword by GEOFFREY SAYRE-MCCORD ix <br> Introduction by DAVID P. FARRINGTON 1<p> PART ONE: The Effects of Intervention<p> CHAPTER 1 - A Thirty-Year Follow-up of Treatment Effects 13 <br> CHAPTER 2 - Consideration of Some Effects of a Counseling Program 22<br> CHAPTER 3 - The Cambridge-Somerville Study: A Pioneering Longitudinal-Experimental Study of Delinquency Prevention 32<br> CHAPTER 4 - Cures That Harm: Unanticipated Outcomes of Crime Prevention Programs 41 <p> PART TWO: The Effects of Child Rearing <p> CHAPTER 5- Some Child-Rearing Antecedents of Criminal Behavior in Adult Men 57 <br> CHAPTER 6 - A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Paternal Absence and Crime 70 <br> CHAPTER 7 - A Forty Year Perspective on Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect 85<br> CHAPTER 8 - Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality 92 <p>PART THREE: Punishment and Discipline <p>CHAPTER 9 - Questioning the Value of Punishment 111 <br> CHAPTER 10 - Deterrence and the Light Touch of the Law 126 <br> CHAPTER 11 - On Discipline 138 <br> CHAPTER 12 - Discipline and the Use of Sanctions 144 <p> PART FOUR: Crime in the Family <p> CHAPTER 13 - Patterns of Deviance 155 <br> CHAPTER 14 - The Cycle of Crime and Socialization Practices 162 <br> CHAPTER 15 - Family Socialization and Antisocial Behavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research 177 <br> CHAPTER 16 - Family as Crucible for Violence: Comment on 188 Gorman-Smith et al. (1996) <p> PART FIVE: Alcoholism and Drunk Driving <p>CHAPTER 17 - Drunken Drivers in Longitudinal Perspective 199 <br> CHAPTER 18 - Alcoholism and Crime Across Generations 206 <br> CHAPTER 19 - Identifying Developmental Paradigms Leading to Alcoholism 217 <br> CHAPTER 20 - Another Time, Another Drug 227 <p>PART SIX: Miscellany <p>CHAPTER 21 - Competence in Long-Term Perspective 243 <br> CHAPTER 22 - Understanding Motivations: Considering Altruism and Aggression 256 <br> CHAPTER 23 - Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Opportunities: A Study of Two Generations 270 <br> CHAPTER 24 - Learning How to Learn and its Sequelae 281 <br> Joan McCord�s Publications 293 <br>Index 303 </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1878_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Joan McCord</b> (1930-2004) was Professor, Department of Criminology, Temple University and Senior Fellow in the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the Past President of the American Society of Criminology and was awarded the Edwin H. Sutherland Award for Outstanding Contributions to Criminology and the Prix Emile Durkheim for her work in Criminology. Among her many books, she edited <i>Coercion and Punishment in Long-Term Perspectives</i>, <i>Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts</i>, and <i>Beyond Empiricism</i> and coauthored <i>The Psychopath and Psychopathy and Delinquency</i>.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/law.html" TARGET="_top">Law and Criminology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/psycho.html" TARGET="_top">Psychology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592135578&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1878_reg.html</font></p>