num_pages: 424
description: The eight essays in this volume provide comprehensive, up-to-date summaries of crossnational crime trends in Australia, Canada, England, Wales, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. This book is an essential resource for sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists who seek an interdisciplinary approach to crime, its causes, and its repercussions. The contributors to this volume are Marcelo F. Aebi, Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld, Alfred Blumstein, Carlos Carcach, Philip J. Cook, Mark Irving, Darrick Jolliffe, Nataliya Khmilevska, Martin Killias, Philippe Lamon, Patrick A. Langan, Asheley Van Ness, Paul R. Smit, David J. Smith, and Brandon Welsh.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-1999 (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 33)
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-1999 (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 33) (Volume 33)
series: Crime and Justice
publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals