Recent historical scholarship suggests that the post-1960 increase in violent crime in most
Western societies was preceded by a much longer period of decline. In Britain the incidence …

Drug use and drug trafficking are examined as etiological factors in the creation of violence.
A conceptual framework is presented for examining the drugs/violence nexus. Drugs and …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Politics of Sin Page 3 Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and
Public Policy Kenneth J. Meier Series Editor THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACY Larry B …

While youth violence has always been a critical part of delinquency, the modern epidemic is
marked by high rates of gun violence. Adolescents in cities possess and carry guns on a …

The book provides an overview and describes the six myths of serial murder. Serial
killers:(1) had terrible childhoods, were beaten by their parents and were sexually …

IN BOTH THE LENGTHY INTRODUCTION AND THE LENGTHY CONCLUSION of a recent
book about the activities of a gang of robbers in remote Westmorland in the late seventeenth …

Our nation began with the simple phrase,“We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who
were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we …

Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares analisa o homicídio numa perspectiva histórica e comparada: no
Brasil e no mundo, através dos tempos. Utilizando diferentes pontos de vista teóricos e …

In recent years, the use and deadly consequences of gun violence among adolescents has
reached epidemic proportions. At a time when national homicide rates are declining, the …

Sutherland's aspiration for a general theory of both white-collar and common crime can be
pursued by focusing on inequality as an explanatory variable. Powerlessness and poverty …