Why Crime?: Some Causes and Remedies from the Psychological Standpoint

ISBN-13: 9780367136208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 138 str.

Claud Mullins

Opis

Originally published in 1945. This book presents the developing opinions contemporary to the post-war period, of the social and psychological roots of criminality. The author’s ground-breaking work led to much reform in the UK judicial system. This book is fascinating, at times disturbing, insight to the history of psychology, law and criminolog

Spis treści

Preface  1. The Inheritance  2. Parents and Children  3. Breaking Homes  4. Illegitimate Children. Postscript

O autorze

Claud Mullins was a magistrate, lawyer and writer who was responsible for much English judicial reform in the 1930s, especially regarding those in debt and those in court over matrimonial dispute. Some of his views were controversial but he is remembered for his pioneering role in seeking to civilize the legal consequences of family breakdown.