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Modern criminals / edited by James F. Short, Jr.
LIBRA HV6789 .S52 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Short, James F., Jr., 1924-2018, compiler.
- Series:
- Transaction/Society book series ; 8.
- Transaction/Society book series, 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--United States.
- Criminals.
- Crime--United States.
- Crime.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N. J. : Transaction Books; distributed by Dutton ; [New York,] , [1973]
- Contents:
- Short, J. F. On criminals and criminologists: the shifting scene.
- Hamblin, R. L., Abrahamson, M. J., and Burgess, R. L. Diagnosing delinquency.
- Short, J. F., and Strodtbeck, F. L. Why gangs fight.
- Miller, W. B. White gangs.
- Ennis, P. H. Crime, victims, and the police.
- Robins, L. N. Negro homicide victims.
- Zalba, S. R. Battered children.
- Rossi, A. S. Abortion laws and their victims.
- Cressey, D. R. The respectable criminal.
- Leiden, C. Assassination in the Middle East.
- Horowitz, I. L. Kennedy's death: myths and realities.
- Gan, H. J. Why Kennedy was killed.
- Crotty, W. J. Presidential assassinations.
- Drabek, T. E. and Quarantelli, E. L. Scapegoats, villians, and disasters.
- Dynes, R. and Quarantelli, E. L. What looting in civil disturbances really means.
- Sennett, R. Genteel backlash: Chicago, 1886.
- Falk, R. A. War crimes and individual responsibility.
- Bibliography (p. 293-298)
- Notes:
- Originally appeared in Trans-action magazine.
- ISBN:
- 0878550496
- OCLC:
- 799021
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