Crime and Justice at the Millennium: Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang by Robert A. Silverman, Hardcover, 9780792375920 | Buy online at The Nile
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Crime and Justice at the Millennium: Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang

Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang

Author: Robert A. Silverman  

To encourage the innovative scholarship that marked Marvin's career, Guardsmark established the Lipman Criminology Library at the University of Pennsylvania, at his request, and created a national criminology award in his name, the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology.

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To encourage the innovative scholarship that marked Marvin's career, Guardsmark established the Lipman Criminology Library at the University of Pennsylvania, at his request, and created a national criminology award in his name, the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology.

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The major theme of this volume is state-of-the-art criminology at the millennium and its impact into the 21st century. It is appropriate that such a volume be produced in honour of Marvin E. Wolfgang, the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world. Those invited to contribute were students or colleagues of Professor Wolfgang and are themselves distinguished criminologists. They represent criminology both of the past and the future. The book honours Marvin Wolfgang, but also provides an account of where the discipline of criminology stands and its future directions.

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Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in Philadelphia. I sought him out after his work with Edwin Newman's NBC Reports: Violence in America. He was a tender, loving, caring individual who loved excellence-whether it be an intellectual challenge, the arts or any other pursuit. It is a great privilege to take part in honoring Marvin Wolfgang, a great American. Our approaches to the subject of crime came from different perspectives

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Publisher
Springer
Published
31st January 2001
Edition
1st
Pages
404
ISBN
9780792375920

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