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Reactions to crime : the public, the police, courts, and prisons

Title
Reactions to crime : the public, the police, courts, and prisons / edited by David P. Farrington and John Gunn.
Publication
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Farrington, David P.
  • Gunn, John Charles.
Description
ix, 189 pages; 25 cm
Summary
This is the second volume in a series concerned with the contribution of psychiatry and psychology to all aspects of crime, offenders, the law, legal processes, the treatment of offenders and the criminal justice system.
Series Statement
Current research in forensic psychiatry and psychology
Uniform Title
Wiley series on current research in forensic psychiatry and psychology ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Criminology > Public opinion
  • Criminal psychology
  • Correctional psychology
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • Crime
  • Crime > Public opinion
  • Crime
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Public Opinion
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • crimes (events)
  • Crime > Public opinion
  • Correctional psychology
  • Criminal psychology
  • Criminology > Public opinion
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • Verbrechen
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Gefängnis
  • Kriminalpsychologie
  • Criminaliteit
  • Publieke opinie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The politicization of delinquency -- 3. 'Impulsive' Bystanders : why do they intervene? -- 4. Disentangling crimiminal behaviour and police reaction -- 5. Deterrence and the light touch of the law -- 6. Legal/ forensic training in clinical psychology -- 7. The effects of crowding in prisons and jails -- 8. Characteristics of middle-aged prisoners -- 9. Crime, personality, and treatment needs in german prisoners.
ISBN
  • 047190497X
  • 9780471904977
LCCN
84017369
OCLC
  • ocm11069028
  • 11069028
  • SCSB-630959
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library