TY - BOOK AU - Allen,Edward J. AU - Bordua,David J. AU - Byrd,HonRobert C. AU - Caudill,Harry M. AU - Cleaver,Eldridge AU - Clemmer,Donald AU - Cohen,Joseph AU - Dinitz,Simon AU - Dressier,David AU - Dressler,David AU - Durkheim,Emile AU - Esselstyn,T.C. AU - Fitzpatrick,Joseph P. AU - Fortas,Abe AU - Glaser,Daniel AU - Glueck,Sheldon AU - Gould,Robert E. AU - Green,Edward R. AU - Gutman,Daniel AU - Guttmacher,Manfred S. AU - Haines,William H. AU - Hoffman,Harry R. AU - Hoover,J.Edgar AU - Hopper,Columbus B. AU - Jellinek,E.M. AU - Kassebaum,Gene G. AU - Kennedy,Foster AU - King,Martin Luther AU - Knudton,Richard D. AU - Korn,Richard AU - Lander,Bernard AU - Lejins,Peter P. AU - Lewis,Anthony AU - Martin,John M. AU - McCorkle,Lloyd W. AU - McKay,Henry D. AU - Merton,Robert K. AU - Monahan,Thomas P. AU - Montagu,M.F.Ashley AU - O’Leary,Vincent AU - Quinney,Earl R. AU - Reagan,Ronald AU - Reckless,Walter C. AU - Reiss,Albert J. AU - Rice,Kent AU - Roszak,Theodore AU - Schrag,Clarence AU - Sellin,Thorsten AU - Shaw,Clifford R. AU - Shulman,Harry M. AU - Silver,Edward S. AU - Slovenko,Ralph AU - Stanton,John M. AU - Sutherland,Edwin H. AU - Sykes,Gresham M. AU - Tappan,Paul W. AU - Ward,David A. AU - Zalba,Serapio R. TI - Readings in Criminology and Penology SN - 9780231925341 PY - 1972///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - Presents essays on criminology as a branch of sociology with contributions from biology, psychology, social work, public administration, law, and political science UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/dres92534 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231889193 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231889193.jpg ER -