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Crime, Courts, and Probation
by Charles Lionel Chute and Marjorie Bell (Introduction: Roscoe Pound)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York (1956)
ISBN: B000O00WNG
Hardcover: 268 pages
Edition: First Printing
SKU: 0064379
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Clean, crisp, bright & tight. Modest shelfwear, primarily on the extremeties; prior owner name inside front cover; discolored stripe near spine on blank free end papers (feps); pen mark on last page of Index; some discoloration on edges of page deck from age.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"One million Americans receive sentence annually for serious crimes. Probation experts estimate that 40 or 50 per cent of these convicted persons could be saved for society by the use of intelligent probationary methods. How is this vital social problem being met, and what has been achieved so far in the long struggle to make decent citizens out of lawbreakers? Crime, Courts, and Probation is an authoritative, perceptive description of current probationary techniques and an engrossing account of the battle to win acceptance of probation as an integral part of our...." [from front flap]
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