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criminology : Annual editions / editor, Mark L. Fisch

Contributor(s): Series: Publication details: Guilford : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, c1998.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: x,229 p. : 28 cm. illISBN:
  • 0697391353
  • 9780697391353
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364 22 CRI
LOC classification:
  • HV6025 .A155 2009
Contents:
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CONTENT

UNIT 1. THEORIES OF CRIME CAUSATION
1. The crisis of public order

2. National crime control policies

3. Moral credibility and crime

4. Insanity pleas fail a lot of defendants as fear of crime
etc...

UNIT 2. VIOLENT AND TERRORISM
9. Degrees of terror

10. A shocking look at blacks and crime

11. Terrorism in America

12. Law and order
etc...

UNIT 3. PUBLIC DISORDER AND JUVINILE CRIME
14. Mother sold food, daughter sells her body: The cultural continuity of prostitution

15. Redd scare

16. Juvenile justice comes of age

17. There are no children here
etc...

UNIT 4. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL CRIME
18. Money changes everything

19. Why lawyers lie

20. Move over, Charles Keating
etc...

UNIT 5. ORGANIZED CRIME
22. The decline of the American Mafia

23. The Russian Mob's submarine scheme

24. Who is the Mob today
etc...

UNIT 6. VICTIMS
27. Victimization and victim industry

28. Surviving the unbelievable

29. Extra credit

30. A mother's long goodbye

UNIT 7. SURVEY OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
31. Why good crops go bad

32. Juries and justice: Is the system obsolete

33Convicts in the workplace ? It makes good sense It makes them slaves
etc..

Appendices

Includes index

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