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| 1 | "Institutionalizing" criminological theory | 3 |
| 2 | Anomie, social change and crime : a theoretical examination of institutional-anomie theory | 27 |
| 3 | Crime, punishment, and the American dream : toward a Marxist integration | 41 |
| 4 | Reflections on crime and criminology at the millenium | 61 |
| 5 | Social support as an organizing concept for criminology : presidential address to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences | 79 |
| 6 | Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide : a cross-national application of institutional-anomie theory | 115 |
| 7 | Inequality, welfare state, and homicide : further support for the institutional anomie theory | 139 |
| 8 | Social support, inequality, and homicide : a cross-national test of an integrated theoretical model | 161 |
| 9 | Cross-national differences in managers' willingness to justify ethically suspect behaviors : a test of institutional anomie theory | 195 |
| 10 | Assessing Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional anomie theory : a partial test | 209 |
| 11 | On testing institutional anomie theory with varying specifications | 229 |
| 12 | Social institutions and violence : a sub-national test of institutional anomie theory | 253 |
| 13 | Decommodification and homicide rates in the 20th-century United States | 289 |
| 14 | Social altruism and crime | 323 |
| 15 | Local politics and violent crime in U.S. cities | 351 |
| 16 | Disadvantage and neighborhood violent crime : do local institutions matter? | 387 |
| 17 | The role of public social control in urban neighborhoods : a multi-level analysis of victimization risk | 421 |
| 18 | Industrial shift, polarized labor markets and urban violence : modeling the dynamics between the economic transformation and disaggregated homicide | 449 |
| 19 | The political economy of imprisonment in affluent western democracies, 1960-1990 | 479 |
| 20 | Incarceration, social capital, and crime : implications for social disorganization theory | 499 |
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Kenneth Pope
reviewed Crime and Social Institutions on April 27, 2011 Crime and Social Institutions
Coyle offers a brief history of prison libraries in the U.S. before concluding the book with his proposals for prison library purpose and function. Eschewing the public library as template, he proposes a "change-based" model similar to those implemented in earlier prison libraries (in which libraries where often tied to education and reform). Surprisingly, he does not establish "change-based" libraries in a way that validates or specifically references these earlier models - the only tangible link is in his proposal that prison libraries be specifically removed from other organizations within the institution (such as schools). The historical overview is useful for understanding "trends" in prison librarianship, but Coyle's analysis leaves much to be desired. He fails to address the social aspects that surround incarceration - such as low literacy rates and their systemic origin, and, although he seems to ascribe to the idea that reading is like eating (and some foods as "better" than others), an idea popularly held in early American public librarianship, he still draws a line between the viability and usefulness of popular fiction in prison libraries. He goes so far as to propose that popular and serial fiction not fall under the purview of the prison library, instead, it should be offered through commissary and through prisoner's personal contacts.
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