Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime

by Louise Shelley

In this pioneering analysis of the influence exerted by moderni­zation and socioeconomic evolution on patterns of crime, crim­inologist Louise I. Shelley asserts, "Society gets the type and level of criminality its conditions produce."

Shelley investigates crime patterns in undeveloped capitalist countries, in developed capitalist countries, and in Socialist countries. Her study is unique in that she alone synthesizes his­torical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809309831
• ISBN13: 9780809309832
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"