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Article: Crime.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- June 12, 1995
- Author:
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Crime, edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia (ICS Press, 650 pp., $69.95)
It's All the Rage: Crime and Culture, by Wendy Kaminer (Addison-Wesley, 203 pp., $22)
MAYBE you've started to scout around for some light summer reading. Keep looking. Crime, a hefty collection of essays by the country's most distinguished criminologists, isn't it. But you might want to dive in anyway, if only for the guns, drugs, gangs, cops, genetics, prisons, media violence, family breakdown. And some surprises.
Crime -- the grand simplicity of the title suggests both the scope and the ambition of the project: to sum up the state of the criminologist's art and the ...