ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses what is probably the most controversial of the questions facing students of crime over the ages: whether adverse class conditions cause crime. It presents an example of the way in which a causal theory of crime can be developed and tested. The book also demonstrates the ways in which tabular and regression techniques can be used to test power-control theory. It focuses on the relationship between urbanization and crime. The American experience has given rise to a number of arguments that provide different reasons for expecting urbanization to generate an increasing rate of serious crime. The subcultural theories of crime and delinquency have been ignored or dismissed by many criminologists. Criminologists continue to debate the nature of the connection between drug use and crime and the related issue of specialization among offenders.
