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UNINA9910455173203321 |
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Titolo |
Crime in Europe / / edited by Frances Heidensohn and Martin Farrell |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993, c1991 |
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1-138-41591-X |
1-134-86384-5 |
1-280-32183-0 |
0-203-42315-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HeidensohnFrances |
FarrellMartin <1950-> |
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Crime - Europe |
Crime prevention - Europe |
Criminology - Europe |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, held at the University of York, in September 1988. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Preface to the paperback edition; Introduction: convergence, diversity and change; Criminology in Europe; More than a matter of security: trends in crime prevention in Europe; Crime in eastern Europe; Women and crime in Europe; Drugs, crime and law enforcement: some issues for Europe; Ethnic minorities: crime and criminal justice in Europe; Police co-operation within western Europe |
Social development and the prevention of crime in France: a challenge for local parties and central government A touch of discipline: accountability and discipline in prison systems in western Europe; Conflict resolution between victims and offenders in Austria and in the Federal Republic of Germany; Developments in business crime control in Europe; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index |
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Crime in Europe looks at the patterns of crime and policing in the new Europe of the 1990's. The contributors tackle a wide range of issues in an attempt to establish a truly comparative and relevant criminology for Europe. |
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UNINA9910453973103321 |
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McWilliams Tennant S. <1943-> |
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The new South faces the world [[electronic resource] ] : foreign affairs and the Southern sense of self, 1877-1950 / / Tennant S. McWilliams |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Internationalists - Southern States - History |
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United States Foreign relations 1865- |
Southern States Intellectual life 1865- |
Southern States Relations Foreign countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1988. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission and the Burden; 1 James H. Blount, Paramount Defender of Hawaii; 2 The Mobile Register and Cuba Libre; 3 Daniel Augustus Tompkins and China; 4 The Anglo-Saxon Bond of John W. Davis; 5 The Southern Council on International Relations; 6 The Expanding South; Essay on Sources; Index |
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"In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the |
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flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life |
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