Readings in Criminology and Penology / / ed. by David Dressler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Edward J.,; Bordua, David J.,; Byrd, Hon. Robert C.,; Caudill, Harry M.,; Cleaver, Eldridge,; Clemmer, Donald,; Cohen, Joseph,; Dinitz, Simon,; Dressier, David,; Durkheim, Emile,; Esselstyn, T. C.,; Fitzpatrick, Joseph P.,; Fortas, Abe,; Glaser, Daniel,; Glueck, Sheldon,; Gould, Robert E.,; Green, Edward R.,; Gutman, Daniel,; Guttmacher, Manfred S.,; Haines, William H.,; Hoffman, Harry R.,; Hoover, J. Edgar,; Hopper, Columbus B.,; Jellinek, E. M.,; Kassebaum, Gene G.,; Kennedy, Foster,; King, Martin Luther,; Knudton, Richard D.,; Korn, Richard,; Lander, Bernard,; Lejins, Peter P.,; Lewis, Anthony,; Martin, John M.,; McCorkle, Lloyd W.,; McKay, Henry D.,; Merton, Robert K.,; Monahan, Thomas P.,; Montagu, M. F. Ashley,; O’Leary, Vincent,; Quinney, Earl R.,; Reagan, Ronald,; Reckless, Walter C.,; Reiss, Albert J.,; Rice, Kent,; Roszak, Theodore,; Schrag, Clarence,; Sellin, Thorsten,; Shaw, Clifford R.,; Shulman, Harry M.,; Silver, Edward S.,; Slovenko, Ralph,; Stanton, John M.,; Sutherland, Edwin H.,; Sykes, Gresham M.,; Tappan, Paul W.,; Ward, David A.,; Zalba, Serapio R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dressler, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1972]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 1972
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (748 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part I. Defining and Measuring Crime --; Introduction --; Crime as Normal Behavior --; Crime as Violation of Conduct Norms --; Crime as a Legal Concept --; The Alarming Increase in Crime --; Our Inadequate Criminal Statistics --; Part II. Behavior Patterns of Offenders --; The Professional Thief. A Professional Thief --; A More Recent Conception of Professional Crime --; Maxie the Goniff --; Organized Crime --; Boss of the Outfit --; The Normal Murderer --; William Heirens: Sex Offender—Killer --; White-Collar Criminality --; A Re-examination of White-Collar Criminality --; Crimes of Corporations and Executives --; Becoming an Alcoholic --; An Alcoholic's Story --; Drugs of Abuse and Their Effects --; Drug User --; The Use and Abuse of Psychedelic Experience --; The Gang as a Cultural Phenomenon --; Gang Boy --; Part III. The Search for Explanations --; The Concept of Cause --; The Biologist Looks at Crime --; Race, Social Status, and Criminal Arrest --; Intelligence and Delinquency --; The Psychiatric Approach to Crime and Correction --; The Geography of Crime --; An Ecological Approach to Juvenile Delinquency --; A Divergent Ecological View on Delinquency --; Self-Concept as an Insulator Against Delinquency --; Broken Homes and Delinquency --; Crime and Economic Condition --; Culture Conflict and Crime --; The Theory of Differential Association --; A Critical Look at Differential Association Theory --; The Doctrine of "Socially Derived Sin" --; Part IV. The Administration of Justice --; The Constitution on Civil Liberties --; "I Think It a Less Evil That Some Criminals Should Escape Than That the Government Should Play an Ignoble Part" --; Legalized Wire-Tapping Is Necessary --; The Criminal Gets the Breaks --; Does the Supreme Court Impede Justice? --; On Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Racism: Letter from Birmingham City Jail --; On Civil Disobedience with Violence The Death of Martin Luther King: Requiem for Nonviolence --; Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law --; Police Brutality? --; Police Brutality or Public Brutality? --; The Social Role of a County Sheriff --; The Rural Judge --; Trial by Combat in American Courts --; The Rule of M'Naghten --; The Durham Rule: Departure from M'Naghten --; A Police Chiefs Views on Capital Punishment --; Capital Punishment: A Sociologist's Appraisal --; In Re Gault: Supreme Court of the United States (May 15, 1967) --; Part V. Peno-Correctional and Treatment Programs --; The Purposes of Imprisonment --; My First Day in Prison --; Imprisonment as a Source of Criminality --; Leadership Among Prison Inmates --; Resocialization Within Walls --; The Jailhouse Turnout: Homosexuality Among Women in Prison --; Conjugal Visiting at the Mississippi State Penitentiary --; Work-Release Programs --; Inmates as "Therapists" --; Alternatives to Incarceration: Community-Centered Programs --; A Police Official Looks at Probation and Parole --; Parole Prediction --; Personal Characteristics Related to Parolee Recidivism --; Murderers on Parole --; Part VI. Prevention --; A Public Official Discusses Delinquency and Crime Prevention --; An Offender Discusses Prevention --; Three Approaches to Delinquency Prevention: A Critique --; A Structural Approach to Delinquency Prevention and Treatment --; Index of Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231889193; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/dres92534
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by David Dressler.

Presents essays on criminology as a branch of sociology with contributions from biology, psychology, social work, public administration, law, and political science.