Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office

1965/01/01 by David Sudnow · 577 citations
Social Sciences · #Code (set theory) #Computer science #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Criminology #Law #Penal code #Political science #Programming language #Race, History, and American Society #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/798932

published in Social Problems 12(3), 255-276 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

David Sudnow; Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office, Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3, 1 January 1965, Pages 255

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