Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index
pt. I. The Problem and Elizabethan England -- 1. A Case for the Use of Literary Works in Criminology -- 2. The Historical Setting: Shakespeare's England -- pt. II. Crimes and Deviance Committed by Selected Characters -- 3. Violence against the Person -- 4. Property Crimes -- 5. Noncriminal Deviance and Nonviolent Sexual Deviance -- pt. III. Relationship between Criminological Theory and the Behavior of Selected Shakespearean Characters -- 6. Classicalism: Rational Choice: Macbeth -- 7. Lombrosianism, Theories of Heredity, and Psychopathy and the Antisocial Personality -- 8. Ecological Theory: Pompey, Froth -- 9. Social Learning Theories: Othello, Richard III -- 10. Social Control and Bond Theories: Lady Macbeth, Othello, Richard III -- 11. Normalcy of Crime and Strain/Anomie Theories -- 12. Social Reaction/Labeling Theory: Shylock -- 13. Conflict Theory: Shylock -- 14. Integrated Theories -- pt. IV. Social Control and Legal Issues -- 15. The Etiology of Punishment -- 16. The Duke's Judgment -- 17. Conclusion and Recommendation -- App. Who Was William Shakespeare?