CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA
FAIN: FS-*0002-78
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Gresham M. Sykes (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)
Seminar to survey the changing views in the United States concerning the use of punishment as retribution and as a means of controlling crime. Readings, drawn from sociology, law, psychiatry, and history will stress the historical growth of ideas in this area and encompass a wide range of intellectual positions.