ABSTRACT
A comprehensive model of crime must be attentive to offenders and victims as well as to the contexts within which they interact. However, most criminological theory and research has failed to conceptualize these elements in ways that emphasize their interrelatedness. The fail ure to consider simultaneously offenders, victims, and contexts has created an awkward situation for analysts of crime. It is especially ironic in view of the continuing interest in the topic of theoretical integration both in sociology (Alexander et al., 1987) and criminology and deviance (Clarke and Felson, 1993; Bernard, 1990; Messner et al., 1989). As a result of a more comprehensive view, three bodies of literature in the sociology of deviance have laid claim to the label “theoretical.”
