Research Catalog

Title

Readings in comparative criminology / edited by Louise I. Shelley.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shelley, Louise I.

Description

xxxiv, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Science and international affairs series

Uniform Title

Science and international affairs series

Subject

• Criminology
• Criminology
• criminology
• Criminaliteit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Offender and offense comparison -- American women and crime / Rita J. Simon -- Affluence and adolescent crime / Jackson Tody -- Youth crime in postindustrial societies : An integrated perspective / Paul C. Friday and Jerald Hage -- A comparative study of youth culture and delinquency : Upper middle-class Canadian and Swiss boys / Edmund W. Vaz and John Casparis -- Homicide in 110 nations : The development of the comparative crime data file / Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner -- Part II. Social forces, crime, and criminal justice -- Contemporary crime in historical perspective : A comparative studyof London, Stockholm, and Sydney / Ted Robert Gurr -- The modernization of crime in Germany and France, 1830-1913 / Howard Zehr -- Urbanization and crime : The Soviet case in cross-cultural perspective / Louise I. Shelley -- United Nations crime survey (1977) -- A cross-cultural study of correlates of crime / Margaret K. Bacon, Irvin L. Chold, Herbert Barry, III -- The case of August Sangret : A contribution to historical criminology / Wolf Middendorf -- The "second life" : A cross-cultural view of peer subcultures in correctional institutions in Poland and the United States / Maria Los and Palmer Anderson -- Crime and delinquency research in selected European countries Eugene Doleschal.

ISBN

• 0809309386
• 9780809309382

LCCN

80019533

OCLC

• ocm06555235
• 6555235
• SCSB-70021

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library