| Description |
viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. A critical understanding of crime -- The concept of crime -- Critical criminology -- Legal order and the state -- The nature of criminal law -- Sources of criminal law -- Administration of criminal justice -- The rule of law -- 2. The development of criminology -- Early and classical criminological thought -- Nineteenth-century sociological criminology -- Nineteenth-century biological criminology -- Twentieth-century eclectic criminology -- Twentieth-century sociological criminology -- 3. Contemporary isues in the study of crime -- The substance of contemporary criminology -- The meaning of criminal statistics -- The methodology of explanation -- Theorizing in criminology -- 4. Crime and punishment in the United States -- Crime in an emerging society -- Crime and punishment the American way -- Crime control in Urban America -- Control of moral order -- 5. The future of crime and social justice -- The changing character of crime -- Public consciousness about crime -- A struggle for social justice |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [175]-186 |
| Subject |
Crime.
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Criminology.
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| Author |
Wildeman, John, 1937- author
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| LC no. |
76044271 |
| ISBN |
0060453117 |
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