An essay on crimes and punishments / Cesare Beccaria
The criminal man / Cesare Lombroso (as summarized by Gina Lombroso Ferrero)
Unraveling juvenile delinquency / Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck
Gene-based evolutionary theories in criminology / Lee Ellis and Anthony Walsh
Does the body tell? biological characteristics and criminal disposition / David Rowe
Personality and crime : are some people crime prone? / Avshalom Caspi [and others]
Juvenile delinquency and urban areas / Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay
A theory of race, crime, and urban inequality / Robert J. Sampson and William Julius Wilson
Collective efficacy and crime / Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls
A theory of differential association / Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey
Techniques of neutralization / Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza
A social learning theory of crime / Ronald L. Akers
The thesis of a subculture of violence / Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti
The code of the street / Elijah Anderson
Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton.