The encyclopedia of violence: origins, attitudes, consequences

This volume addresses one of the most alarming social characteristics of contemporary society, the high incidence of violence and crime. It takes as its subject street and domestic violence and crime, as well as the related areas of corporate or "white-collar" crime and organized crime, co...

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1. Verfasser: Di Canio, Margaret (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Facts On File 1993
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Zusammenfassung:This volume addresses one of the most alarming social characteristics of contemporary society, the high incidence of violence and crime. It takes as its subject street and domestic violence and crime, as well as the related areas of corporate or "white-collar" crime and organized crime, considered as aspects of a single but complex and extraordinarily dangerous public health problem
The author scrutinizes statistical evidence as well as the unquantifiable sociocultural and psychological roots of violence, and summarizes responses to it by the health, law-enforcement, judicial and prison systems
Among the entries in this book, there are well-informed considerations of the drug trade, hate crimes, child abuse, campus violence, availability of guns, the possible existence of a "criminal mind", police and prosecutorial procedures, crime statistics, and many other much-discussed but little-understood topics
Beschreibung:XII, 404 S.
ISBN:0816023328

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