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Urban ecology Urban ecology
CriminologyThe search for causesCriminology in modern timesBIBLIOGRAPHYIt is proper to use the term criminology to designate either (a) a body of scientific knowledge about crime, including its causes and prevention, the handling of offenders, and the pursuit of such knowledge regardless of where it... Read more
Johan Bojer Johan Bojer
Bojer, Johan (1872–1959), Norwegian novelist, visited the U.S. (1923) to gather material for his novel, The Emigrants (1925), concerned with the settling of the Middle West by Norwegian farmers.... Read more
Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 Organized Crime Control Act of 1970
Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 Arthur G. LeFrancois In the early 1950s, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee led a committee of the U.S. Senate in investigating organized crime in the United States. The Special Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce concluded that... Read more
Earle G. Wheeler Earle G. Wheeler
Wheeler, Earle G. (1908–1975), general, U.S. Army; chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 1964–79.Gen. Earle Wheeler's tenure as the nation's top military officer spanned the height of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Wheeler chairman of... Read more
Civil Liberties Civil Liberties
Civil Liberties and War. From the outset of the new American government under the Articles of Confederation, the need for striking a delicate balance between authority and liberty was essential. Fear of powerful central control was stated clearly regarding the English king in the U.S. Declaration of... Read more
Corrections Corrections
PenologyI THE FIELDDaniel GlaserbibliographyII PROBATION AND PAROLEDaniel GlaserbibliographyI THE FIELDPenology is the branch of criminology concerned with government policies and practices in dealing with persons convicted of crimes. Its etymology, from the Latin poena, meaning “pain” or... Read more
Charles Rann Kennedy Charles Rann Kennedy
Charles Rann Kennedy 1871-1950, Anglo-American dramatist, b. Derby, England. He became a U.S. citizen in 1917. His plays, concerned with moral problems, include The Servant in the House (1908) and The Terrible Meek (1912).... Read more
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (1840–1914), pioneer American archaeologist, was born in Switzerland and brought to the U.S. in 1848. He published many works concerned with his research among the remains of ancient man in Mexico, New Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, and these are important... Read more
Business ethics Business ethics
Business Ethics Caveat emptor. This ancient Latin proverb, let the buyer beware, tells us that business ethics has been a societal concern going back a long ways indeed. Richard T. De George, a distinguished student of the subject, dates the modern interest in business ethics to the 1960s when... Read more

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