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

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• 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.)

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

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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