Contents or Abstract: '; “...From where I sit -- The system -- The role of the victim -- Crime prevention and the courts -- The controversies -- The goal of rehabilitation -- The desert model -- Presumptive sentencing -- The road from vengeance -- Types of crime -- Irrational crimes -- Family crimes -- White-collar crime -- Street crime -- Crime in Black and White -- The child and the law -- The uses of psychiatry -- Victim compensation -- Agenda for reform -- Notes -- Index....”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...Saran -- Cracking the skull, mending the soul : Sonia Sanchez's role as teacher/healer/poet / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Madame Neau : the practice of ethno-psychiatry in rural Louisiana / Wonda Lee Fontenot -- Perceptions of discrimination, psycho-social functioning and physical symptoms of African-American women / Carol M. ...”