{"product_id":"crime-and-family-selected-essays-of-joan-mccord-9781592135578","title":"Crime and Family: Selected Essays of Joan McCord","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeminal essays by a pioneering criminologist, collected for the first time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is a must-have book for anyone who cares about preventing crime and avoiding harmful programs.  The book offers McCord's classic evidence that good intentions can produce disastrous results, and that crime prevention should be evaluated no less rigorously than a new and powerful drug.\" Lawrence Sherman, Director, Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, University of Pennsylvania \"[McCord] clearly was a researcher of unbounded energy whose life's work has added greatly to the corpus of criminological knowledge. This book is an excellent collection of that work. The methodology of her research in the developmental study of crime is both classically rigorous and strikingly inventive.\" The Law and Politics Book Review \"The essays are mostly based on topics close to Joan's heart...The book closes with a truly inspiring autobiography and a list of all of her publications.\" Contemporary Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Effects of Intervention; The Effects of Child Rearing; Punishment and Child Abuse; Crime in the Family; Alcoholism and Drunk Driving; Miscellany","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041555415383,"sku":"9781592135578","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crime-and-family-selected-essays-of-joan-mccord-9781592135578","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}