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19 produkter
Crime Human Nature
The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime
Av Richard J. Herrnstein, James Q. Wilson
Inbunden, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
343 kr
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From Simon & Schuster, Crime & Human Nature is the definitive study of the causes of crime.Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociology, criminology, economics, medicine, biology, and psychology and exploring the effects of such factors as gender, age, race, and family, two eminent …
Moral Sense
Häftad, 1998
201 kr
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Are human beings naturally endowed with a conscience? Or is morality artificially acquired through social pressure and instruction? Most people assume that modern science proves the latter. Further, most of our current social policies are based upon this “scientific” view of the sources of …
Crime and Public Policy
Av James Q. Wilson, Joan Petersilia
Häftad, 2011
982 kr
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Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects …
Crime and Public Policy
Inbunden, 2011
2543 kr
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Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects …
Crime and Public Policy
Av Joan Petersilia, James Q. Wilson
E-bok, 2011
690 kr
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Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects …
Crime and Public Policy
Av Joan Petersilia, James Q. Wilson
E-bok, 2010
690 kr
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Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects …
Crime and Justice, Volume 13
Drugs and Crime
Av Michael Tonry, James Q. Wilson
Häftad, 1991
669 kr
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Varieties of Police Behavior
The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities, With a New Preface by the Author
Häftad, 1978
406 kr
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The patrolman has the most difficult, complex, and least understood task in the police department. Much less is known of him than of his better publicized colleague, the detective. In this important and timely book, James Q. Wilson describes the patrolman and the problems he faces that arise out of …
Political Organizations
Updated Edition
Häftad, 1995
848 kr
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A major work by one of America's eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote this book to counter two ideas: that popular interests will automatically generate political …
Political Organizations
Updated Edition
E-bok, 2021
1170 kr
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A major work by one of America''s eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote this book to counter two ideas: that popular interests will automatically generate political …
On Character
Essays by James Q. Wilson
Häftad, 1995
177 kr
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James Q. Wilson is the former president of the American Political Science Association and adviser to four presidents on issues related to crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises of American cutlure. In this book, he has produced a provocative series of essays related to character development …
Two Nations
Häftad, 1998
142 kr
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While many Americans live in conditions of prosperity, a second nationwhere illegitimacy, child and drug abuse, violence, criminality, and other social ills proliferateis growing within.
Moral Sense
E-bok, 1997
213 kr
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Are human beings naturally endowed with a conscience? Or is morality artificially acquired through social pressure and instruction? Most people assume that modern science proves the latter. Further, most of our current social policies are based upon this “scientific” view of the sources of …
Understanding and Controlling Crime
Toward a New Research Strategy
Av James Q. Wilson, Lloyd E. Ohlin m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual …
Understanding and Controlling Crime
Toward a New Research Strategy
Av David P. Farrington, Lloyd E. Ohlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual …
Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention
Av James Q. Wilson, Glenn C. Loury
E-bok, 2013
755 kr
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Are there ways to intervene early in a child''s life that might reduce, at a reasonable cost, the probability of his becoming a serious delinquent? The results of some small-scale social experiments have been published suggesting that certain kinds of preschool education and parent training might …
Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention
Av Glenn C. Loury, James Q. Wilson
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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Are there ways to intervene early in a child's life that might reduce, at a reasonable cost, the probability of his becoming a serious delinquent? The results of some small-scale social experiments have been published suggesting that certain kinds of preschool education and parent training might …
Moral Sense
Ljudbok, 2005
299 kr
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Virtue has acquired a bad name, says Wilson, but it is nevertheless what we are referring to when we discuss a person''s character, such as whether someone is kind, friendly, or loyal. Although we may disguise the language of morality as a language of personality, it is still, in Wilson''s words, …
