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The realities of crime and punishment
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Explanations: Crime in General, and Social Explanations: Juvenile Delinquency. Volume II, the Criminal in the Hands of the Law, is divided into three parts: Purposes of Penal Sanctions, the Police, and Judicial Decision-Making Processes. Volume III, the Criminal in Confinement, is divided into three parts also: The Deprivation of Liberty, Effectiveness of Punishment and Treatment, and Identifying and Predicting Offenders, Each of the volumes includes an introduction to serve as a general guide to the contents of the volume. Each volume also contains an index.
Ghetto Revolts edited by Peter H. Rossi. Transaction Books (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903), 1950, 321 pp., paperback-$2.95. Number 16 in the Transaction Book series, this collection was edited by Peter H. Ross&a professor in the Department of Social Relations of the John Hopkins University and Director of Research at the Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research. All of the essays in the book were originally published in Society (Transactionj Magazine. The collection of essays examines the causes and characteristics of, and the reactions to the ghetto revolts of the 1960s. More specifically, it deals with the socioeconomic conditions in northern urban ghettos that are the basic causes of disorders, the institutions that provide services to the ghetto, and the distinctions between revolts, riots, revolutions, and rebellions. The thirteen articles are divided into four sections: Causes and Complaints, Why Riots Occur, Reactions: Masses and Officials, and Do Black Mayors Make the Difference?
The Realities of Crime and Punishment by Fred T. Wilkerson with Fred DeArmond. The Mycroft Press (2043 South Scenic Ave. Springfield, Missouri 65804), 1972, 270 pp., hardback-$7.95. Subtitled a “Prison Administrator’s Testament,” this book was written by a former Deputy Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and Director of Missouri’s Department of Corrections. The book is primarily a collection of the personal experiences, thoughts, and philosophies of the author accumulated over his thirty-four years in prison work. A partial list of topics discussed in the twenty-four chapters includes: size of the problem, penology, social attitudes, female offenders, education and work therapy, mental health, religious therapy, probation and parole, law and the courts, the death penalty, local jail, escapes, prison jargon, discipline, sanctions, physical health, and institutional input. Each chapter contains a list of sources. The book contains photographs and an index is included.
PUBLICATIONS
A BSTRACT
93
Explanations: Crime in General, and Social Explanations: Juvenile Delinquency. Volume II, the Criminal in the Hands of the Law, is divided into three parts: Purposes of Penal Sanctions, the Police, and Judicial Decision-Making Processes. Volume III, the Criminal in Confinement, is divided into three parts also: The Deprivation of Liberty, Effectiveness of Punishment and Treatment, and Identifying and Predicting Offenders, Each of the volumes includes an introduction to serve as a general guide to the contents of the volume. Each volume also contains an index.
Ghetto Revolts edited by Peter H. Rossi. Transaction Books (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903), 1950, 321 pp., paperback-$2.95. Number 16 in the Transaction Book series, this collection was edited by Peter H. Ross&a professor in the Department of Social Relations of the John Hopkins University and Director of Research at the Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research. All of the essays in the book were originally published in Society (Transactionj Magazine. The collection of essays examines the causes and characteristics of, and the reactions to the ghetto revolts of the 1960s. More specifically, it deals with the socioeconomic conditions in northern urban ghettos that are the basic causes of disorders, the institutions that provide services to the ghetto, and the distinctions between revolts, riots, revolutions, and rebellions. The thirteen articles are divided into four sections: Causes and Complaints, Why Riots Occur, Reactions: Masses and Officials, and Do Black Mayors Make the Difference?
The Realities of Crime and Punishment by Fred T. Wilkerson with Fred DeArmond. The Mycroft Press (2043 South Scenic Ave. Springfield, Missouri 65804), 1972, 270 pp., hardback-$7.95. Subtitled a “Prison Administrator’s Testament,” this book was written by a former Deputy Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and Director of Missouri’s Department of Corrections. The book is primarily a collection of the personal experiences, thoughts, and philosophies of the author accumulated over his thirty-four years in prison work. A partial list of topics discussed in the twenty-four chapters includes: size of the problem, penology, social attitudes, female offenders, education and work therapy, mental health, religious therapy, probation and parole, law and the courts, the death penalty, local jail, escapes, prison jargon, discipline, sanctions, physical health, and institutional input. Each chapter contains a list of sources. The book contains photographs and an index is included.