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Crime and justice in America, 1776-1976 / special editor of this volume, Graeme R. Newman.

Title
Crime and justice in America, 1776-1976 / special editor of this volume, Graeme R. Newman.
Publication
Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1976.

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Additional Authors
  • Newman, Graeme R.
  • American Academy of Political and Social Science
Description
viii, 228 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 423
Uniform Title
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science v. 423.
Subject
  • Crime > United States
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface / Graeme R. Newman -- Criminal violence in America: the first hundred years / Roger Lane -- The great American search: causes of crime 1876-1976 / Travis Hirschi and David Rudisill -- The growth of crime in the United States / Harold E. Pepinsky -- American women and crime / Rita J. Simon -- The heritage of Cain: crime in American fiction / M.E. Grenender -- Psychoanalysis and crime: a critical survey of salient trends in the literature / John W. Fitzpatrick -- Mafia: the prototypical alien conspiracy / Dwight C. Smith, Jr. -- Blacks, crime, and American culture / John A. Davis -- Progress and prosecution / Jack M. Kress -- Criminal sentencing in the United States: an historical and conceptual overview / Alan M. Dershowitz -- No excuse for crime / Ernest van den Haag -- Controlling "dangerous" people / John Monahan and Gilbert Geis -- Equity and republican justice / Leslie T. Wilkins.
ISBN
0877611963 : 0877611971
LCCN
^^^75036472^//r912
OCLC
  • 2118599
  • SCSB-11325155
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Harvard Library