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1 online resource (413 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; I THE MEANING OF INTEGRATION; NOTES AND REFERENCES; II CRIMINOLOGY AS AN INTEGRATING DISCIPLINE; THE MEANING OF CRIMINOLOGY; The scope of the field; The definition of a criminologist; MAJOR RESEARCH TRENDS IN CRIMINOLOGY; Clinical criminology; History and development in various countries; The main approaches and their limitations; Sociological criminology; Earlier trends in research; Recent trends; Current developments in theory and research. |
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Multiple factors or general theory: two approaches in search of a synthesisClinical v. sociological criminology The clinician and the scientist; The dangers of isolation; Towards a unified criminology; NOTES AND REFERENCES; III SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE: AN INTEGRATED CONCEPTUALIZATION; THE BASIC MEANING OF SUBCULTURE; SOME FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS ABOUT THE MEANING OF SUBCULTURES; The subculture in relation to the dominant culture; Conduct norms; Social groups; Roles; Situational and subcultural norms; Sanctions; Transmission of values; The problem of quantification. |
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THE CONCEPTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF VALUESThe distinction between norms and values; Some criteria of values; Some criteria of norms; Modes of value-orientations; Commitment and conformity; THE MEASUREMENT OF VALUES; Dodd's classification; Catton's concept of 'value-space'; The measurement of values in different populations; Analysis of moral values; Cross-cultural studies; The measurement of values in criminological studies; The use of psychophysical methods: magnitude estimation; THE THESIS OF A SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE. |
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Iv biological, psychiatric, and psycho metric perspectives on a subculture of violence from studies on homicidethe classification of homicide and homicide studies; the biology of violence; psychiatric aspects of homicide and violence; psychological diagnosis of the aggressive homicidal personality; v social investigations of homicide and treatment and research related to subculture of violence; the main variables employed in sociological investigations; developing countries; selected culture case studies; control, prevention, and treatment; index of names; analytical index. |
| Summary |
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Criminology.
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Criminology. |
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Violence.
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Violence. |
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Murder.
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Murder. |
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Electronic books.
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Wolfgang, Marvin E. (Marvin Eugene), 1924-1998.
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Print version: Ferracuti, Franco. Subculture of Violence : Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415264105 |
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9781136423055 (electronic book) |
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1136423052 (electronic book) |
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