I remember learning about “Coleman’s Boat” as a sociology master’s student at Washington State University as if the seminar had taken place yesterday. The boat, essentially an upside-down trapezoid, is a diagram meant to show the relationship between social structure and individual agency (see Figure I.1). Macro-level factors (the top left of the boat) influence the belief systems and values of individual actors (the bottom left of the boat), those individual beliefs translate into individual actions (the bottom right of the boat), and those individual actions then accumulate and unintentionally create the macro-level again (the top right of the boat) (Coleman 1990). Bourdieu, Giddens, and Habermas are a bit fuzzier, but I remember that boat—perhaps there is indeed something to be written about theoretical parsimony (or whether a theory lends itself to simple, nautical representations). Still further back in my memory are psychologists Bandura, Skinner, and Kohlberg. More recent and accessible after my permanent transition into criminology are Merton, Sutherland, Shaw and McKay, Agnew, Akers, and Hirschi.