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Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
eBook version- Published by Gale
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic:
- Crime and Punishment explores the development, diversity, and duality of attitudes and arguments related to crime and punishment
- Environmental Issues offers insights into the origins of environmental consciousness, the complexities of environmental science, and the sometimes contentious arguments surrounding environmental issues
- Family in Society provides readings into two centuries of changes in concepts, representations, and roles of the family in society
- Gender Issues and Sexuality provides insight into the personal, social, and political issues of gender and sexuality---issues that range from intimate matters of personal belief to matters that profoundly shape modern society
- Government, Politics, and Protest explores the causes and nature of protest as well as the historical tension between protest and government, including underlying causes
- Human and Civil Rights covers the universal guarantees of security of person and freedom of conscience for all individuals regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, or gender
- Immigration and Multiculturalism offers insight into two centuries of global changes in populations and cultures
- Medicine, Bioethics, and Health explores the development, diversity, and linking of science and ethics as embodied in medical advances, social policy, and law
- Social Policy explores how governments and groups have developed and implemented social policies that have shaped societies and influenced social justice and social change
- Terrorism provides insight into the scale and complexities of terrorism across a sweeping landscape of time, geography, act, and motive
Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry:
- Date
- Source
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Primary Source
- Significance
- Further Resources
All titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.
While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.
Review:
"Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources offers an excellent starting point for those wishing to learn more about crime and the criminal mind and is recommended for both academic and public libraries."
--ARBA, March 2007
- Published/Released: August 2006
- ISBN 13: 9781414412603
- ISBN 10: 1414412606
- DDC: 364
- Product number: 226724
- Shipping Weight: 0.00 lbs (0.00 kgs)
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