NCJ Number
171167
Editor(s)
B Holyst
Date Published
1996
Length
230 pages
Annotation
This book investigates various aspects of criminology in the United States, Canada, and several European countries.
Abstract
The book contains 13 articles on a variety of topics within the field of criminology, including the following: (1) recent changes in Europe and implications for the police responsibility of maintaining public order and safety; (2) the international interest in victimology; (3) political and administrative corruption and various criteria to distinguish virtuous from corrupt behavior; (4) the history of Canada's criminal justice system and efforts at penal reform; (5) the epidemic violence against foreigners in the unified Germany; (6) statistics on the Swiss criminal justice system and comments on future trends; (7) money laundering and international initiatives aimed at its prevention; (8) criminology in Hungary before and after World War II and the country's reactions to crime; (9) the nature of loneliness in relation to behavioral illnesses, specifically addictions, violence and crime; (10) differences in the female/male ratio for national homicide rates; (11) the concept of criminal insanity and the interworking of the disciplines of medicine, specifically psychiatry, and law; (12) the lack of scientific curiosity about female criminality issues and the consequences of that lack of interest; and (13) the rise and consequences of economic crime in Poland since 1989. Notes, figures, tables, references, bibliography