Crime and Justice at the Millennium Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang

Crime and Justice at the Millennium Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang / edited by Robert A. Silverman, Terence P. Thornberry, Bernard Cohen, Barry Krisberg.

Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in Philadelphia. I sought him out after his work with Edwin Newman's NBC Reports: Violence in America. He was...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Silverman, Robert A. (Editor), Thornberry, Terence P. (Editor), Cohen, Bernard (Editor), Krisberg, Barry (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Criminology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Philosophy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reflections on a Scholarly Career: An Interview with Marvin E. Wolfgang
  • II. Crime and Justice at the Millennium
  • Subcultures of Violence and Beyond: Theory Integration in Criminology
  • Political Violence: Patterns and Trends
  • Intimate Partner Violence: The Legacy of Marvin Wolfgang’s Thinking
  • Social Stress and Violence in Israel: A Macro Level Analysis
  • Violence among Russian-Germans in the Context of the Subculture of Violence Theory
  • Arrest Clearances for Homicide: A Study of Los Angeles
  • Trends and Patterns of Homicide in Australia
  • Investigating Race and Gender Differences in Specialization in Violence
  • Carrying Guns and Involvement in Crime
  • Victim Categories of Crime Revisited
  • A Minimum Requirement for Police Corruption
  • Community Policing in Canada: An Evaluation for Montreal
  • The Wolfgang Legacy on the Intersection of Race and the Death Penalty
  • Should the Juvenile Court Survive?
  • The Life of Lifers: Wolfgang’s Inquiry into the Prison Adjustment of Homicide Offenders
  • Truth in Sentencing and Prison Infractions
  • III. In His Own Voice: Selected Essays
  • In His Own Voice
  • Victim Precipitated Criminal Homicide
  • Seeking an Explanation Marvin
  • Violence, U.S.A., Riots and Crime
  • The Social Scientist in Court
  • Youth Crime: Sumer and Later
  • Crime and Punishment in Renaissance Florence
  • We Do Not Deserve To Kill
  • Of Crimes and Punishment.

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