NCJ Number
18254
Editor(s)
R G MATTSON-CRONINGER,
C W THOMAS
Date Published
1975
Length
22 pages
Annotation
A SERIES OF 243 SELECTIONS DATING FROM 1938 TO 1975, INCLUDING SUCH IMPORTANT WORKS AS TANNENBAUM'S BOOK ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, KITUSE'S WORKS ON DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, AND LEMERT'S BOOK ON SOCIAL PATHOLOGY.
Abstract
AMONG THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTIONS ARE DEFINITIONS OF MENTAL DEFICIENCY, THE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY, DEVELOPING DEVIANT IDENTITIES, SOCIOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF INTERACTION, INEQUALITY IN THE IMPOSITION OF THE CRIMINAL LABEL, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF DEVIANT LABELS TO PROSTITUTION, HOMOSEXUALITY, JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, AND THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.