CRIME AND THE PENAL SYSTEM A Textbook of Criminology

Hardback. This concise but comprehensive study of an important topical subject deals with causes, treatment, and prevention, and is based on English conditions. Not only should it constitute a valuable introduction to the subject for students reading sociology or training in social work, but it will also serve as a guide to modern ideas and modern methods (at the time) for police officers, workers in the penal and social services, and in fact to all who are interested in the problems of modern society, and who, so far as Criminology is concerned, may have had to rely upon American books for their information. With Notes and Index. 269pp. 8vo. h/back. With two tiny labels to fpd, lightly browned edges and eps, o/w Nr. F. in Vg. sl. sunned and marked (see image) pcdw. Scarce 1st edn.