The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control

by Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins

Book Overview

Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of protecting persons and property. But they go further and systematically cover the amount, costs, causes, and victims of crime: the reduction of violence; the police; corrections; juvenile delinquency; the function of psychiatry in crime control; organized crime; and the uses of criminological research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226539024
• ISBN13: 9780226539027
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"