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| Authors: | David D. Witt |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa;2. Florida Atlantic University;3. University of Texas , Arlington;4. California State University , Fresno;5. University of California , Irvine;6. State University of New York , College, Potsdam |
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| Abstract: | Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime by James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985, 639 pp., $12.95 paper. The Negative Scream by Sally O'Brien. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985, 148 pp., $12.95 paper. Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, 306 pp., $20.00 hb. American Violence &; Public Policy by Lynn A. Curtis (ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Taking Care of Business: The Economics of Crime by Heroin Abusers by Bruce D. Johnson, Paul J. Goldstein, Edward Preble, James Schmeidler, Douglas S. Lipton, Barry Spunt and Thomas Miller. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985, 275 pp., $29.00 hb. Life With Heroin: Voices From the Inner City by Bill Hanson, George Beschner, James M. Walters and Elliott Bovelle (eds.). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985, 208 pp., hb. Policy Analysts in the Bureauaraay by Arnold Meltsner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976 hb, 1986 paper, 326 pp., $11.95. >The War on Drugs: Heroin, Cocaine, and Public Policy by James A. Inciardi. Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1986, $9.95 paper. Sartre and Marxist Existentialism by Thomas R. Flynn. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, 265 pp., $10.95 paper. |
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