The volume describes the relevance of Merton's concept of goals/means disparity as a psychological mechanism in the explanation of delinquency and compares strain theory with social control theory. A macrosociological theoretical formulation is used to address the association between societal development and crime rates. In other chapters, anomie theory is employed to explain white collar crime and to look at the symbiotic relationship between Chinese gangs and adult criminal organizations within the cultural, economic, and political context of the American-Chinese community. Contributors also examine ethics and crime in business, as well as social reaction and secondary deviance in culture and society in the United States and Japan, and apply a theory of multiple control to analyze discrepancies in the control of elite and lower status deviance. References, notes, footnotes, tables, and figures