History and Crime: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy

by Charles E. Faupel, James A. Inciardi

Using analytic tools adopted from social science -- comparative analysis, time series analysis, and other techniques -- historical analysis of crime offers insights relevant to today′s problems. ′...policy makers...should read and ponder the thirteen essays in History and Crime. They just might obtain sufficient insight about crime within a historical context and about past criminal sanctions to persuade them of the futility of coercive measures without an understanding of the causes of crime...History and Crime belongs in every library and in every classroom in which social history is taught.′ -- History, January 1982

284 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1980