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Author:

Clark, Ramsey, 1927-

Title:

Crime in America; observations on its nature, causes, prevention, and control. With an introd. by Tom Wicker.

Publisher:

Simon and Schuster

Copyright Date:

1970

Description:

346 p. 22 cm.

Subject:

Crime--United States.
Police--United States.
Criminalité--États-Unis.
Police--États-Unis.
Criminaliteit.

Contents:

The death penalty and reverence for life -- The many faces of crime -- The crime count: ignorance, myth and fact -- The mother of crime -- Organized crime: the limited empire -- Drugs: when chemistry and anxiety meet -- Guns: the violent killers -- The failing system -- Police: the urgent need to professionalize -- Servants or oppressors? -- Police in times of turbulence -- Courts and prosecutors: breakdown and reform -- Prisons: factories of crime -- The young, the powerless and dissent: new frontiers for the social compact -- Technology: the promise and the peril -- Soldiers, safety and freedom -- The wiretap: destroyer of integrity -- Presumed innocent? bail and preventive detention -- Confessions, the Fifth Amendment and human dignity -- The death penalty and reverence for life -- Epilogue, A passion for justice.

ISBN:

9780671204075
0671204076

LCCN:

78128604

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