Marvin E Wolfgang: 3 books

Book cover of Comparative Deviance

Comparative Deviance

Perception and Law in Six Cultures

by Graeme R. Newman, Marvin E. Wolfgang
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs,...
Book cover of Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts
by Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminologi­ cal birth cohort study in the United States. Nils Christie, in Unge norske lovorertredere, had done the first such study as his dissertation at the University of Oslo in 1960. Professor Thorsten Sellin was the inspiration...
Book cover of Collective Violence
by James F., Jr. Short, Marvin E. Wolfgang
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th...
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