The Criminal Gets the Breaks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Part I. Defining and Measuring Crime
5. Introduction 3
6. Crime as Normal Behavior 4
7. Crime as Violation of Conduct Norms 10
8. Crime as a Legal Concept 20
9. The Alarming Increase in Crime 29
10. Our Inadequate Criminal Statistics 34
11. Part II. Behavior Patterns of Offenders
12. Introduction 43
13. The Professional Thief. A Professional Thief 48
14. A More Recent Conception of Professional Crime 52
15. Maxie the Goniff 65
16. Organized Crime 69
17. Boss of the Outfit 88
18. The Normal Murderer 99
19. William Heirens: Sex Offender—Killer 106
20. White-Collar Criminality 117
21. A Re-examination of White-Collar Criminality 131
22. Crimes of Corporations and Executives 137
23. Becoming an Alcoholic 141
24. An Alcoholic's Story 156
25. Drugs of Abuse and Their Effects 167
26. Drug User 183
27. The Use and Abuse of Psychedelic Experience 199
28. The Gang as a Cultural Phenomenon 205
29. Gang Boy 227
30. Part III. The Search for Explanations
31. Introduction 245
32. The Concept of Cause 248
33. The Biologist Looks at Crime 250
34. Race, Social Status, and Criminal Arrest 267
35. Intelligence and Delinquency 284
36. The Psychiatric Approach to Crime and Correction 294
37. The Geography of Crime 301
38. An Ecological Approach to Juvenile Delinquency 312
39. A Divergent Ecological View on Delinquency 319
40. Self-Concept as an Insulator Against Delinquency 329
41. Broken Homes and Delinquency 340
42. Crime and Economic Condition 351
43. Culture Conflict and Crime 361
44. The Theory of Differential Association 365
45. A Critical Look at Differential Association Theory 372
46. The Doctrine of "Socially Derived Sin" 379
47. Part IV. The Administration of Justice
48. Introduction 397
49. The Constitution on Civil Liberties 400
50. "I Think It a Less Evil That Some Criminals Should Escape Than That the Government Should Play an Ignoble Part" 405
51. Legalized Wire-Tapping Is Necessary 408
52. The Criminal Gets the Breaks 411
53. Does the Supreme Court Impede Justice? 419
54. On Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Racism: Letter from Birmingham City Jail 426
55. On Civil Disobedience with Violence The Death of Martin Luther King: Requiem for Nonviolence 443
56. Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law 448
57. Police Brutality? 456
58. Police Brutality or Public Brutality? 477
59. The Social Role of a County Sheriff 483
60. The Rural Judge 493
61. Trial by Combat in American Courts 502
62. The Rule of M'Naghten 512
63. The Durham Rule: Departure from M'Naghten 518
64. A Police Chiefs Views on Capital Punishment 531
65. Capital Punishment: A Sociologist's Appraisal 537
66. In Re Gault: Supreme Court of the United States (May 15, 1967) 547
67. Part V. Peno-Correctional and Treatment Programs
68. Introduction 575
69. The Purposes of Imprisonment 578
70. My First Day in Prison 582
71. Imprisonment as a Source of Criminality 590
72. Leadership Among Prison Inmates 600
73. Resocialization Within Walls 608
74. The Jailhouse Turnout: Homosexuality Among Women in Prison 625
75. Conjugal Visiting at the Mississippi State Penitentiary 636
76. Work-Release Programs 650
77. Inmates as "Therapists" 657
78. Alternatives to Incarceration: Community-Centered Programs 663
79. A Police Official Looks at Probation and Parole 674
80. Parole Prediction 676
81. Personal Characteristics Related to Parolee Recidivism 682
82. Murderers on Parole 695
83. Part VI. Prevention
84. Introduction 707
85. A Public Official Discusses Delinquency and Crime Prevention 708
86. An Offender Discusses Prevention 715
87. Three Approaches to Delinquency Prevention: A Critique 721
88. A Structural Approach to Delinquency Prevention and Treatment 734
89. Index of Authors 745