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Crime and punishment : essential primary sources / K. Lee and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 484 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414412603
  • 1414412606
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364 23
Online resources:
Contents:
Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Criminals and the criminal mind -- Economic and nonviolent crimes -- Crimes of violence -- Crimes against humanity -- Social perceptions and impacts of crimes -- Forensics and criminology -- Justice and punishment -- Social issues and future trends -- Sources consulted -- Index.
Summary: A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Criminals and the criminal mind -- Economic and nonviolent crimes -- Crimes of violence -- Crimes against humanity -- Social perceptions and impacts of crimes -- Forensics and criminology -- Justice and punishment -- Social issues and future trends -- Sources consulted -- Index.

A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.

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