Contents: Introduction. Theoretical Considerations: Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld (2004), "Institutionalizing" criminological theory; Jon Gunnar Bernburg (2002), Anomie, social change and crime: a theoretical examination of institutional-anomie theory; Barbara Sims (1997), Crime, punishment, and the American dream: toward a Marxist integration; Elliott Currie (1999), Reflections on crime and criminology at the millenium; Francis T. Cullen (1994), Social support as an organizing concept for criminology. Cross-National Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld (1997), Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide: a cross-national application of institutional-anomie theory; Jukka Savolainen (2000), Inequality, welfare state, and homicide: further support for the institutional anomie theory; Travis C. Pratt and Timothy W. Godsey (2003), Social support, inequality, and homicide: a cross-national test of an integrated theoretical model; John B.
Cullen, K. Praveen Parboteeah and Martin Hoegl (2004), Cross-national differences in managers' willingness to justify ethically suspect behaviors: a test of institutional anomie theory. Based Tests of Institutional-Anomie Theory: Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran (1995), Assessing Messner and Rosenfeld's Institutional Anomie Theory: a partial test; Alex Piquero and Nicole Leeper Piquero (1998), On testing institutional anomie theory with varying specifications; Michael O. Maume and Matthew R. Lee (2003), Social institutions and violence: a sub-national test of institutional anomie theory; Candice Batton and Gary Jensen (2002), Decommodification and homicide rates in the 20th-Century United States; Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K.
Cochran (1997), Social altruism and crime. Crime and Institutional Dynamics at the Local Level: Thomas D. Stucky (2003), Local politics and violent crime in U.S. Cities; Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo and Mark A. Harris (2000), Disadvantage and neighborhood violent crime: do local institutions matter?; Maria B.
Velez (2001), The role of public social control in urban neighborhoods: a multi-level analysis of victimization risk; Karen Parker (2004), Industrial shift, polarized labor markets and urban violence: modeling the dynamics between the economic transformation and disaggregated homicide. Implications For Punishment: John R. Sutton (2004), The political economy of imprisonment in affluent Western democracies, 1960-1990; Dina Rose and Todd Clear (1998), Incarceration, social capital and crime: implications for social disorganization theory; Index.