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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology
June 9, 2000, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology
June 9, 2000, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology
March 1993, Dushkin Pub Group
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Table of Contents
Part 1.Definitions and explanations of crime:
Is crime always functional?
Does rap music contribute to violent crime?
Does IQ significantly contribute to crime?
Is street crime more serious than white-collar crime?
Part2.Criminal justice and race, gender, and youth:
Does arresting batterers do more harm than good?
Are legal rights harmful to African Americans?
Are blacks helped by the drug war?
Should juvenile courts be abolished?
Should the federal government have a major role in reducing juvenile crime?
Are the dangers of Internet child pornography exaggerated?
Part3.Is the segregation of HIV-positive inmates ethical?
Are conjugal and familial visitations effective rehabilitative concepts?
Should serial killers and violent sexual offenders be quarantined?
Part 4.Criminal justice research, evaluation, and policy analysis:
Is capital punishment bad policy?
Do more guns lead to less crime?
Should zero tolerance/broken windows policing be encouraged?
Part 5.Future trends in criminology and criminal justice:
Does three strikes and other tough approaches work?
Should jury nullification be used to reduce ethnic and racial inequities?
Does the international drug war encourage human rights violations?
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