Economic Analysis of Violent Crime in Virginia (1986-1993)
Author : Catherine L. Nowery
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Violent crimes
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Author : Catherine L. Nowery
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Violent crimes
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Author : Barry Latzer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080717484X
The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer’s comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence—including murder, assault, and rape—in the United States from the 1880s through the 1930s. Combining the theoretical perspectives and methodological rigor of criminology with a synthesis of historical scholarship as well as original research and analysis, Latzer challenges conventional thinking about violent crime of this era. While scholars have traditionally cast American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as dreadful places, Latzer suggests that despite overcrowding and poverty, U.S. cities enjoyed low rates of violent crime, especially when compared to rural areas. The rural South and the thinly populated West both suffered much higher levels of brutal crime than the metropolises of the East and Midwest. Latzer deemphasizes racism and bigotry as causes of violence during this period, noting that while many social groups confronted significant levels of discrimination and abuse, only some engaged in high levels of violent crime. Cultural predispositions and subcultures of violence, he posits, led some groups to participate more frequently in violent activity than others. He also argues that the prohibition on alcohol in the 1920s did not drive up rates of violent crime. Though the bootlegger wars contributed considerably to the murder rate in some of America’s largest municipalities, Prohibition also eliminated saloons, which served as hubs of vice, corruption, and lawlessness. The Roots of Violent Crime in America stands as a sweeping reevaluation of the causes of crimes of violence in the United States between the Gilded Age and World War II, compelling readers to rethink enduring assumptions on this contentious topic.
Author : Virginia. Department of Criminal Justice Services
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1984*
Category : Criminal statistics
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1992-04
Category : Government publications
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Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Statistics
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1993-11
Category : Government publications
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Author : R.T. Naylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773570454
Outraged by recent encroachments on citizens' rights that have been justified by claims that new and more restrictive laws will combat the ravages of international crime, Naylor contends that no police campaign that fails to address the demand for illegal goods and services has ever succeeded. He supports this claim with detailed - and often entertaining - accounts of past criminal operations and law enforcement's attempts to stop them. Wages of Crime makes a persuasive case for the need to address the underlying economic and political factors that encourage criminal enterprises rather than relying on restrictive laws.
Author : Stefan Fafinski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134027869
This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. In doing so, it surveys the attempts of the domestic criminal law to deal with some early manifestations of computer misuse and the consequent legislative passage of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. This book will be of interest to students of IT law as well as to sociologists and criminologists, and those who have a professional concern with preventing computer misuse and fraud.
Author : Michael H. Tonry
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 019535267X
Author : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 1993
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