Advances in Criminological Theory

<p>Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades establishing itself as a competitive and sophisticated social science. Despite and perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design methodology and quantitative analysis criminology has had few significant advances in theory. <em>Advances in Criminological Theory </em>is the first publication exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory. It was created to overcome the neglect of theory construction and validation in existing criminological publications as well as to further the free exchange of ideas propositions and postulates. This first volume of the series meets this challenge.</p>