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