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Principles of Criminology has always been designed to emphasize the organization and systematization of knowledge, and this edition continues that tradition.

Two new chapters have been prepared to deal with recent developments in this area. New sections have been added to fifteen chapters and obsolete sections have been removed from eight. Key concepts and ideas have been developed in virtually every chapter. Crime and criminal justice statistics were updated and changes to criminal justice policies and programs were reviewed. In fact, serious efforts have been made to modernize this edition.

The first part examines the facts of crime and delinquency and relates them to Sutherland's theories of differential association and differential social organization. The evidence reviewed includes variations in crime and delinquency rates by age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, education and other variables, as well as the incidence among criminals and offenders with various physical, psychological and social characteristics and their progression. Differential association theory and alternative theories of crime causation are evaluated in light of their comparative ability to "make sense" of facts.

The second part examines the facts of crime and delinquency control and relates them to sociological and psychological theories of punishment and intervention, as well as theories of differential association and differential social organization. For example, corporal punishment, prison, probation, and group therapy are identified as societal responses to crime, variations in these responses are observed, and theories are presented to explain the variations. The conflict between punishment and treatment of offenders is documented, and the consequences of this conflict for the organization and functioning of the police, courts, probation services, probation services, and prisons are examined. The implications of theories of differential association and differential social organization for correctional administration and penal reform are examined.