Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thorsten Sellin, Herman R. Lantz
"On the Penitentiary System in the United States" is a "graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice, and its republican by Southern Illinois University Press, with an excellent concise introduction by Prof. Thorsten Sellin, is commendable."-Norvel Morris, "The Nation" "The Words of these two distinguished Frenchmen have a remarkably correct application in this day and generation. This book has a historic significance. It may bring to some of us a rather modest reflection that perhaps some of out great ideas were actuating people's minds...
"On the Penitentiary System in the United States" is a "graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice...
This volume is a statistical and sociological analysis of one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Combining original research and a review of all major previous studies on criminal homicide in America, this study attempts to discover and to analyze patterns in criminal homicide from among almost six hundred cases that occurred in the city of Philadelphia between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1952.
The primary source of data utilized by Marvin E. Wolfgang was the files of the Homicide Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department. Answers were sought to a series of...
This volume is a statistical and sociological analysis of one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Combining original research and ...
