Author:
Sykes, Gresham M. comp.
Imprint:New York : Random House, c1969
Descriptionix, 437 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I. WHAT IS A CRIME? 1. OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES: The argument begins / Plato - The need for law / Thomas Hobbes - The force of custom / E. Adamsom Hoebel - The birth of law / Alan Harding - A satirical barb / Samuel Butler - 2. THE LAWLESS SOCIETY: The outlaw: Twain meets Slade / Mark Twain - The lawman: myth in embryo / Stuart N. Lake - The enduring frontier / Mabel A. Elliott - The fascination of crime / George Orwell - 4. LIFE IN THE CITY: A London slum / Arthur Morrison - The pattern repeats itself / Jean Evans - Again / Claude Brown - The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow - Beyond 1984 / Anthony Burgess - 4. THE LAWYER'S VIEW: Criminal intent / [from] Morissette v. United States - The changing law / [from] Driver v. Hinnant - The light of reason / Morris Cohen - 5. MATTERS OF DEBATE: A majority of one / Henry David Thoreau - To form a more perfect union / Martin Luther King, Jr. - Life in a lifeboat / Edmond Cahn - Who makes the rules? / Howard S. Becker PART II: WHAT CAUSES CRIME? 1. THE BIOLOGY OF CRIME: The criminal type / Cesare Lombroso - Nature versus nurture / L. C. Dunn, Th. Dobzhansky - The critics respond / Robert K. Merton, M. F. Ashley Montagu - The search continues / Konrad Lorenz - 2. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME: The M'Naghten rules / John Biggs, Jr. - A modern view / [from] Durham v. United States - Does psychopathy exist? / William McCord, Joan McCord - Id, ego, and superego / Franz Alexander, Hugh Straub - A psychiatrist expresses doubt / Thomas S. Szasz - The delinquent personality / John Janeway Conger, Wilbur C. Miller - 3. THE SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME: The correlates of crime / Donald R. Cressey - Differential association / Edwin H. Sutherland - Crime and deviance / K. Merton - Up through the underworld / Daniel Bell - The management of status / James F. Short, Fred L. Strodbeck - Playing it cool / Harold Finestone - Good old boys / Tom Wolfe - $4,000,000 a day / Norman Jaspan, Hillel Black - PART III. WHAT CAN BE DONE? 1. THE POLICE: The average cop / St. Claire McKelway - The policeman's lot / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - The need for discretion / Wayne R. La Fave - The right of silence / [from] "Miranda v. Arizona" - Cost and effectiveness / Space-General Corporation - Some immediate steps / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice 2. THE COURTS: - Off with their heads / Lewis Carroll - Guilty or not guilty / Isaac D. Levy - A meeting of adversaries / David Dressler - Mass production / Edwrd J. Barrett, Jr. - The negotiated plea / Donald J. Newman - A time for change / [from] Correctional Processes - 3. THE PRISON: A world apart / Fyodor Dostoevsky - Cellhouse A, cellhouse C / Donald Clemmer - The dumping ground / James V. Bennett - Future directions / Task Force on Corrections - The back door of the prison / Wilber La Roe, Jr. - 4. THE HOPE OF REFORM: The cost of rehabilitation / Fritz Redl, David Wineman - Milieu therapy / Lloyd W. McCorkle, Albert Elias, F. Lovell Bixby - The company of deviants / Rita Volkman, Donald R. Cressey - The watchful street / Jane Jacobs - Twelve percent / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - Unfinished business / Paul Goodman.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
