POLICE CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIAL CONTROL (FROM POLICE, AN INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC POWER, 1975 EDITED BY MANFRED BRUSTEN - SEE NCJ-28312)

• NCJ Number: 28315
• Author(s): P MALINOWSKY
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 27 pages
• Corporate Author: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: German
• Country: West Germany (Former)

Annotation

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CRIMINOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND CONCEPTS OF THE POLICE SYSTEM IN WEST GERMANY WHICH ASCRIBES MORAL AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY TO OFFENDERS WITHOUT CONSIDERING SOCIAL FACTORS THAT CAUSE CRIME.

Abstract

CRIME IS SEEN AS THE RESULT OF SOCIAL INTERACTION AND SOCIAL LABELING PROCESSES WHICH ARE PARTLY CONDITIONED BY SUCH INSTITUTIONS AS THE POLICE THEMSELVES, AS WELL AS THE WHOLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. --IN GERMAN