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At the present time it is not easy to say anything on the German problem which is startlingly new to the initiate in this field. It is all the more difficult for anyone who has written a book on this subject.1 The best I can do here is to draw attention once more to some central aspects of the German problem on which, incidentally, world public opinion still seems to be generally wrong and where it is particularly difficult to pierce the thick crust of preconceived, though by no means incomprehensible, ideas. Passions the world" over have not yet abated; wounds opened by the Nazi monster are, at best, just beginning to close. The memory of our fears is still fresh, so fresh indeed, that only the more far-sighted men understand the senselessness of looking transfixed into this gigantic shell-hole which still goes under the name of Germany while, just behind it, another of the terribles simplificateurs is heaping up the dynamite for a new experiment of this kind.

Half Title -- Law & Society Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- 1. A Theory Of Crime -- Chpater 1. The Social Reality of Crime -- Assumptions: Explanation in the Study of Crime -- Assumptions: Man and Society in a Theory of Crime -- Theory: The Social Reality of Crime -- A Theoretical Perspective for Studying Crime -- 2. Formulation Of Criminal Definitions -- Chpater 2. Criminal Law in Politically Organized Society -- The Study of Criminal Law -- From Sociological Jurisprudence to Sociology of Criminal Law -- Law in Politically Organized Society -- The Interest Structure -- Formulation and Administration of Criminal Law -- Interests in Contemporary Society -- Chpater 3. Interests in the Formulation of Criminal Laws -- Emergence of Criminal Law -- Criminal Law in Colonies and Territories -- Protection of the Political Order -- Religious Foundations of Criminal Law -- Sunday Law -- The Law of Theft -- Antitrust Laws -- Pure Food and Drug Laws -- Sexual Psychopath Laws -- Protection of Morality and Public Order -- 3. Application Of Criminal Definitions -- Chpater 4. Enforcement of Criminal Law -- Police Discretion -- Legal Regulation of Law Enforcement -- Law Enforcement Systems -- Community Context of Law Enforcement -- Police Organization and Law Enforcement -- Police Ideology and Law Enforcement -- The Encounter Between Police and Citizens -- The Offense Situation and Selective Law Enforcement -- Chpater 5. Administration of Criminal Justice -- Politicality of Justice -- Discretion and Decision-Making in the Judicial Process -- Prosecution and Nontrial Adjudication -- The Criminal Lawyer in the Adversary System -- The Criminal Trial and the Jury -- Judicial Sentencing -- Chpater 6. Penal and Correctional Administration -- Organization and Supervision of Probation