Criminological Research Trends in Western Germany: German Reports to the 6th International Congress on Criminology in Madrid 1970

ISBN-13: 9783540057543 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 178 str.

G. Kaiser; T. Wa1/4rtenberger

Opis

The articles in this volume were originally reports conceived as Germany's contribution to the 6th International Congress of Criminology in Madrid. Impressions gained at this world congress, prompted our decision to make these papers available in the English language. In this way we hope to make accessible to an international audience the most recent reflections, approaches and research findings of criminologists in the Federal Republic of Germany. We are adding to this collection a bibliography listing all criminological It seems to us monographs published in German within the last five years. that a systematic survey of the literature is highly suitable for completing the picture outlined in the various articles. This should provide some idea of the focal points and tendencies of the present thinking and of the efforts at institutionalization in German criminology. Last but not least, this col lection may help to revise the opinion that criminology in the German speaking world is still largely biologically oriented. The editors are aware of the scholarly and editorial risks connected with the publication of such a volume. Nevertheless they believe that these risks have to be faced in order to provide information about the present crimino logical thinking in the Federal Republic of Germany and to illustrate its close links with the international scene. We hope that this book will be accepted by the international public as a contribution to a "comparative criminology." Should this venture find an interested audience, similar volumes could follow in regular intervals."

Spis treści

Section 1: General Problems Concerning Scientific Research in Criminology.- The Present State of Scientific Research in Criminology.- The Relationship between Scientific Research and Criminal Policy.- The Relationship between Scientific Research and Teaching in Criminology.- Section 2: Probation Research.- Research on Sentencing in Probation and Especially the Choice of Delinquents to Be Put on Probation.- Investigations on the Validity of Prediction Tables in the Field of Probation.- Research into the Effectiveness of Probation Results.- Section 3: Problems of Methodology.- Research Priorities in Criminology.- Necessity and Function of Interdisciplinary Criminology.- Section 4: Research in Progress.- Psychotherapeutic Treatment in German Penal Institutions.- Section 5: Criminological Bibliography (of the German speaking countries, 1965–1970).- Name Index.