NCJ Number
102349
Editor(s)
T F Hartnagel,
R A Silverman
Date Published
1986
Length
214 pages
Annotation
Nine papers present state-of-the-art research and discussions in areas as diverse as criminal statistics, ideological support systems, class and gender, domestic homicide, obscene phone calls, the race-IQ controversy, deterrence theory, and school violence.
Abstract
The first paper discusses the role of values in influencing criminological explanation and policy recommendations, focusing on some of the liberal assumptions and tendencies that have pervaded criminology over the last two decades. This is followed by papers that address the types of victimization and criminal justice data that are comparable across jurisdictions, theories about why criminal activity subsides with age, the roots of varying crimes between the sexes and between individuals and corporate entities, and a model that explains differences between black and white delinquency as attributable to IQ variations. Another study demonstrates the utility of distinguishing types of homicide on the basis of the social distance between victims and offenders. Remaining papers consider the nature of and victim reactions to obscene phone calls, the deterrence effectiveness of drunk-driving laws and their enforcement in various countries, and victim and offender characteristics and offense types for school crime. Tabular data and 283 references. For individual papers, see NCJ 102350-57,