Acknowledgments We wish to express our gratitude to the pub- lishers and authors of the selections included in this volume for their kind permission to reprint material. The present state of knowledge in the field of the sociology of crime and of cor- rections is due in large part to the contribu- tions which these scholars have made. To Francine Spiegel, our secretary, we ex- press our thanks for long hours at arduous tasks proficiently performed. We wish to ac- knowledge as well the valuable assistance of Estelle Cohen, Annette and Benjamin Jacob- son, Fay Savitz, and Lenora Wolfgang in help- ing to read and to correct proof. Finally, we wish to express our gratitude to the Department of Sociology and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for the intellectual climate that made it possible for us to experiment with course material and provided the encouragement and the stim- ulus that resulted in the development of this volume. -vi- |