Criminology

Voorkant
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1983 - 454 pagina's
 

Inhoudsopgave

War
164
The geographical distribution of criminality
182
Race nationality minorities
202
The nonmaterial culture
226
Alcohol and drugs
240
Sex differences in criminality
260
Age
278
The family
296

Criminal somatology
74
Psychoses
86
Isolated abnormal reactions
94
Neuroses
96
Oligophrenia
102
Psychopathy
112
Sexual abnormalities
122
Frequency of mental deviations among criminals
130
Temporal variations
138
The material culture
148
School and peer groups
322
Marital status
336
Occupation economy and social class
342
Prediction
356
Notes
380
Bibliography
418
Subject index
445
Author index
447
Copyright

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 22 - This was not merely an idea, but a revelation. At the sight of that skull, I seemed to see all of a sudden, lighted up as a vast plain under a flaming sky, the problem of the nature of the criminal—an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals.
Pagina 17 - ... that case. 4. If the hypothesis does not fit the facts, either the hypothesis is reformulated or the phenomenon to be explained is redefined, so that the case is excluded. 5 . Practical certainty may be attained after a small number of cases has been...
Pagina 17 - Sixth, this procedure of examining cases, re-defining the phenomenon and re-formulating the hypothesis is continued until a universal relationship is established, each negative case calling for a re-definition or a re-formulation.
Pagina 22 - I was further encouraged in this bold hypothesis by the results of my studies on Verzeni, a criminal convicted of sadism and rape, who showed the cannibalistic instincts of primitive anthropophagists and the ferocity of beasts of prey.

Bibliografische gegevens