The criminal area : a study in social ecology

Author(s)

• Morris, Terence

Bibliographic Information

The criminal area : a study in social ecology

by Terence Morris ; foreword by Hermann Mannheim

（International library of sociology, 202 . The sociology of law and criminology ; 4）

Routledge, 1998, c1957

Note

Reprint. First published in 1957 by Routledge and Kegan Paul

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is Volume IV of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series. Originally published in 1957 this study looks at social ecology and offer a clear exposition of the merits as well as the limitations of the ecological interpretation of crime and juvenile delinquency and, more specifically, of the work of the so-called Chicago School.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 I THE CONCEPTS OF ECOLOGY
• Chapter 2 II DELINQUENCY AREAS
• Chapter 3 III SOME ECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE 19TH CENTURY
• Chapter 4 IV EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES: CLIFFORD SHAW AND THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
• Chapter 5 V GENERAL CRITICISMS OF SHAW'S WORK
• Chapter 6 VI SOME AREA STUDIES SINCE 1930
• Chapter 7 VII DELINQUENCY AREAS IN CROYDON
• Chapter 8 VIII SOME YOUNG DELINQUENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF CASE MATERIAL
• Chapter 9 IX SOME CASE HISTORIES
• Chapter 10 X CRIME, DELINQUENCY, AND SOCIAL CLASS
• Chapter 11 XI DELINQUENCY, HOUSING AND SOCIAL POLICY

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Details

• NCID: BA35646370
• ISBN:
  • 0415177359
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 202 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV6150
  • DC19 : 364.2/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criminal behavior, Prediction of
  • LCSH : Human ecology
  • LCSH : Urban ecology
  • LCSH : Environmental psychology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0019440X