NCJ Number
13652
Editor(s)
S F SYLVESTER
Date Published
1972
Length
194 pages
Annotation
A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES, EXCERPTED FROM THE WORKS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS, WHICH TRACE THE HISTORY OF CRIMINOLOGY.
Abstract
THE WRITINGS INCLUDED REPRESENT EVERY PERIOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF CRIMINOLOGY, BEGINNING WITH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. EACH ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES THE MOVEMENT AWAY FROM A ONE-DIMENSIONAL STUDY OF PUNITIVE MEASURES AND CRIMINOLOGY TO A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL FACTORS INVOLVED. THE AUTHORS REPRESENTED INCLUDE BECCARIA, QUETELET, MAYHEW, LOMBROSO, TARDE, FERRI, BONGER, HEALY, SELLIN, AND SUTHERLAND. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY IS GIVEN OF EACH ONE. A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY IS FURNISHED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED.)