This collection was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection.
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Metropolitan Criminal Justice Center Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
This collection contains reports and booklets of the Metropolitan Criminal Justice Center at William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. The records include an interim report of the Center, a survey of citizen opinions on crime, and booklets on the following topics: A Comparative Analysis of Police Organizations; Deferrence of Crime: A Reformulation of Chambliss' Typology of Deferrence; The Deferrent Effects of Sanctions; Discretion of Law Enforcement Officials; Juvenile Court Intake; On the Measurement of Social Role Adaptation in the Prison Community; Pilot City Project; Sanctions and Social Control; Sociological Perspective on Public Support for Capital Punishment; and Student Drug Use.