| Description |
xxiv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Law & society series |
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Law and society series.
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| Contents |
1. A Theory of Crime -- 1. The Social Reality of Crime -- Assumptions: Explanation in the Study of Crime -- Assumptions: Man and Society in a Theory of Crime -- Theory: The Social Reality of Crime -- A Theoretical Perspective for Studying Crime -- 2. Formulation of Criminal Definitions -- 2. Criminal Law in Politically Organized Society -- The Study of Criminal Law -- From Sociological Jurisprudence to Sociology of Criminal Law -- Law in Politically Organized Society -- The Interest Structure -- Formulation and Administration of Criminal Law -- Interests in Contemporary Society -- 3. Interests in the Formulation of Criminal Laws -- Emergence of Criminal Law -- Criminal Law in Colonies and Territories -- Protection of the Political Order -- Religious Foundations of Criminal Law -- Sunday Law -- The Law of Theft -- Antitrust Laws -- Pure Food and Drug Laws -- Sexual Psychopath Laws -- Protection of Morality and Public Order -- 3. Application of Criminal Definitions -- 4. Enforcement of Criminal Law -- Police Discretion -- Legal Regulation of Law Enforcement -- Law Enforcement Systems -- Community Context of Law Enforcement -- Police Organization and Law Enforcement -- Police Ideology and Law Enforcement -- The Encounter Between Police and Citizens -- The Offense Situation and Selective Law Enforcement -- 5. Administration of Criminal Justice -- Politicality of Justice -- Discretion and Decision-Making in the Judicial Process -- Prosecution and Nontrial Adjudication -- The Criminal Lawyer in the Adversary System -- The Criminal Trial and the Jury -- Judicial Sentencing -- 6. Penal and Correctional Administration -- Organization and Supervision of Probation -- Social Organization of Penal Custody -- Administration of Institutional Treatment -- Administration of Capital Punishment -- Parole Decisions and Supervision -- Prevention Programs in the Community -- Removal of Criminal Definitions -- 4. Development of Behavior Patterns in Relation to Criminal Definitions -- 7. Societal Organization and the Structuring of Behavior Patterns -- Segmental Organization of Society -- Behavior Patterns and Probability of Criminal Definitions -- Structuring of Behavior Patterns -- Ecology of Behavior Patterns and Criminal Definitions -- General Cultural Themes in Segmental Society -- 8. Action Patterns of the Criminally Defined -- Achievement of Self -- Association, Identification, and Commitment -- Personal Action Patterns as Responses to Criminal Definition -- Behavior Systems of the Criminally Defined -- Personal Meaning of Action -- 5. Construction of Criminal Conceptions -- 9. Public Conceptions of Crime -- Social Reaction to Crime -- Diffusion of Criminal Conceptions -- Social Types in the World of Crime -- Public Attitudes Toward Crime -- Public Attitudes Toward the Control of Crime -- Consequences of Criminal Conceptions -- 10. The Politics of Reality -- Periodic Investigations of Crime -- The President's Crime Commission -- The Law and Order Challenge -- Crime and Legitimacy of Authority in a Free Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Criminal anthropology.
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Criminology.
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| LC no. |
00050797 |
| ISBN |
0765806789 (paper : alk. paper) |
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