Probationers, Classified by Personal and Property Offense - A Statistical Comparison of One Hundred Adult Probationers Discharged From the Probation Department of the Court of General Sessions, Manhattan, 1955
Abstract
Crime is eternal - as eternal as society. No matter what type or form of human organization, we find that some humans fall outside the accepted pattern of conduct. Human aberration of all types, weakness, anger, greed, and jealousy can be seen in any and all human societies. Innumerable human sanctions varied in name, time and methods, but identical in purpose have battled against the uncontrollable, the phenomenon of anti-social behavior. For reasons too complex to understand, except by profound students of criminal behavior, these irrational, ill-conditioned, impulsive, and misguided individuals find themselves unable to cope with ordinary pressures and expectancies and in given instances break down and resort to unaccepted behavior. They always have and they always will. There is no way to prevent this reaction from occurring.
Subject Area
Law|Criminology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Pottenburgh, Thomas Joseph, "Probationers, Classified by Personal and Property Offense - A Statistical Comparison of One Hundred Adult Probationers Discharged From the Probation Department of the Court of General Sessions, Manhattan, 1955" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509574.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509574
