Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- DEDICATION -- FOREWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I - THE NATURE OF CRIME -- CRIMINOLOGY -- CRIME -- CRIME STATISTICS -- CHAPTER II - TYPES OF CRIME -- VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST THE PERSON -- CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY -- VANDALISM -- POLITICAL CRIMES -- OCCUPATIONAL CRIMES -- PROFESSIONAL CRIME -- ORGANISED CRIME -- CORPORATE CRIME -- CRIME AS A SOCIAL FACT -- CHAPTER III - THEORIES OF THE CAUSES OF CRIME -- CAUSATIONS -- I. THE THEOLOGICAL-BIOLOGICAL THEORIES -- (a) Demonology -- (b) Original Sin -- (c) The Doctrine of the Free Will -- (d) Heredity -- (e) Mental Disorders and Crime -- (f) Intelligence, Feeblemindedness and Abnormal Behaviour -- (f) The Freudian Theories of Violence -- II SOCIAL-CULTURAL THEORIES -- (a) Culture, Conflict and Crime -- (b) The Subculture of Violence -- (c) Lower Class Culture -- d) Anomie and Crime -- (e) Poverty and Crime -- Theories of the Causes of Crime -- Genetic Theory of Crime -- CHAPTER IV - CRIMES OF VIOLENCE -- ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT -- CRIMINAL HOMICIDE -- MOTIVE IN CRIMINAL HOMICIDE -- MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER -- INFANTICIDE -- MAYHEM AND MUTILATION -- SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE -- TORTURE -- METHODS OF TORTURE -- CHAPTER V - CRIME AND DEVIANCE RELATING TO SEX -- ADULTERY -- BESTIALITY -- BIGAMY -- PROSTITUTION -- CHARACTERISTICS OF PROSTITUTES -- HOMOSEXUALITY -- INCEST -- PANDERING -- RAPE -- INDECENT ASSAULT -- SWINGING -- FORNICATION -- DIVORCE -- CHAPTER VI - OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY -- THEFT -- CHEATING -- ARSON -- CORRUPTION -- FORGERY -- ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE -- SHOPLIFTING -- CHAPTER VII - ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION -- FUNCTIONS OF ALCOHOL -- EVILS OF ALCOHOL -- DRUNKENNESS AND ALCOHOLISM -- THE ALCOHOLIC -- PREVENTION OF DRUNKENNESS AND ALCOHOLISM -- DRUG ADDICTION -- CHAPTER VIII - PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT -- THE CASE FOR DEATH PENALTY -- THE CASE AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY -- Arizona -- Colorado -- Delaware -- Iowa -- Kansas -- Missouri -- Oregon -- South Dakota -- METHODS OF INFLICTING DEATH -- ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT -- DECLARATION OF STOCKHOLM AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY -- CORPORAL PUNISHMENT -- FINES -- IMPRISONMENT -- AIMS OF IMPRISONMENT -- CURRENT VIEWS OF IMPRISONMENT -- PRISON REFORM -- ALTERNATIVES TO IMPRISONMENT -- CHAPTER IX - PREVENTION OF CRIME.