| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 484 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Social issues primary sources collection |
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Gale eBooks
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Social issues primary sources collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Criminals and the criminal mind -- Economic and nonviolent crimes -- Crimes of violence -- Crimes against humanity -- Social perceptions and impacts of crimes -- Forensics and criminology -- Justice and punishment -- Social issues and future trends -- Sources consulted -- Index. |
| Summary |
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- History -- Sources.
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Crime -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Lerner, K. Lee, editor.
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Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crime and punishment : essential primary sources. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006 9781414403243 |
| ISBN |
9781414412603 (electronic book) |
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1414412606 (electronic book) |
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9781414403243 (alk. paper) |
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1414403240 (alk. paper) |
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