Understanding and Controlling Crime: Toward a New Research Strategy

by James Q. Wilson, Lloyd E. Ohlin, David P. Farrington

Book Overview

In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques- tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual frameworks are lack- ing" to understand and to more effectively deal with crime in our society? Those who are acquainted with the work of the members of the Study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461293677
• ISBN13: 9781461293675
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"