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Modern criminals / edited by James F. Short, Jr.
LIBRA HV6789 .S52
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Short, James F., Jr., 1924-2018, compiler.
- Series:
- Trans-action books ; 8.
- Trans-action books ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--United States.
- Criminals.
- Crime--United States.
- Crime.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Law and order: modern criminals.
- Place of Publication:
- [Chicago] : Aldine Pub. Co., [1970]
- Contents:
- On criminals and criminologists, by J. F. Short, Jr.
- Diagnosing delinquency, by R. L. Hamblin, M. J. Abrahamson, and R. L. Burgess.
- Why gangs fight, by J. F. Short, Jr. and F. L. Strodtbeck.
- White gangs, by W. B. Miller.
- Crime, victims, and the police, by P. H. Ennis.
- The respectable criminal, by D. R. Cressey.
- Abortion laws and their victims, by A. S. Rossi.
- Assassination in the Middle East, by C. Leiden.
- Kennedy's death: myths and realities, by I. L. Horowitz.
- Why Kennedy was killed, by H. J. Gans.
- Scapegoats, villains, and disasters, by T. E. Drabek and E. L. Quarantelli.
- What looting in civil disturbances really means, by R. Dynes and E. L. Quarantelli.
- Notes:
- On cover: Law and order: modern criminals.
- "The essays in this book originally appeared in Trans-action magazine."
- Includes bibliographies.
- OCLC:
- 76845
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