Theories of crime and development: An historical perspective
回顾了犯罪与发展关系的理论演变，指出历史研究已推翻“犯罪随经济进步必然增加”的旧假设，呼吁更多长期趋势研究以构建新理论。
Theories of crime have long assumed that increased criminality is an inevitable consequence of economic and social progress. In the 1960s, when criminologists turned their attention to the Third World, this view was accepted by scholars who built on modernisation theory, and it was left unchallenged by the dependency theorists who began studying crime a decade later. But historical studies of crime have now undermined this assumption; in many nations industrialisation, urbanisation and rapid social change have been accompanied by declines in crime. More studies of long‐term trends of crime and criminal law are needed before a necessarily complex theory of crime can be advanced that will replace the discredited theories now prevalent.