Society and Its Criminals (in original dust jacket)
London: Heinemann, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xix+ 315 pp. with index of names and index of subjects. Very good in dust jacket with short tape marks where it had been affixed to the book, closed tear foot of spine and some soiling to the spine. Scholarly work by Criminology professor at the University of Geneva; he was also a lawyer whose practice had broungh him into contatct with criminals. Reiwald examins the subject with the help of the psychology of the unconscious, psycho-analysis. General sections include "The Social and the Asocial Person", ' The Resistance of the Lawyer to Psychology", "The Judge and The Father", "The Criminal in Phantasy", "The Criminal of Reality", "The genesis of Punishment", etc. Very Good / good. Item #E21734
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