Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvii, 758 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. The Dorsey series in anthropology and sociology

Uniform title

1. Dorsey series in anthropology and sociology

Subject

1. Crime > United States
2. Criminology
3. Crime
4. Criminal Law

Contents

1. The social context of criminal deviance -- Crime and criminal law -- The prevalence and distribution of crime -- A criminological approach to analysis of deviant behavior -- Property crimes and offenses -- Criminal violations against the person -- The context of juvenile delinquency -- Special forms of female criminality -- Organized crime -- White-collar crime -- Physiopsychological explanations of crime causation -- Socioenvironmental and sociocultural causation theories -- Social-psychological causes of crime -- An integrated theory of delinquency-crime causation -- The system of law enforcement -- Officers of the court : prosecution and defense attorneys -- The juvenile court -- The postjuvenile and adult criminal court -- The system of military justice -- The federal courts system -- The systems of sentencing and probation -- Systems of institutionalization of juveniles -- The incarceration of adults -- Deprivation of life -- Parole and community reentry -- Recidivism and the problem of prediction -- The prevention of delinquent and criminal conduct.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain