What Is Crime? Controversies Over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It - Softcover

Lanier, Mark M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847698076 ISBN 13: 9780847698073

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who then polices governments? In What Is Crime? the first book-length treatment of the topic, contributors debate the content of crime from diverse perspectives: consensus/moral, cultural/relative, conflict/power, anarchist/critical, feminist, racial/ethnic, postmodernist, and integrational. Henry and Lanier synthesize these perspectives and explore what each means for crime control policy.

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Stuart Henry is a professor of criminology and Director of the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies at San Diego State University. Previously he was Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. His twenty two books include,Constitutive Criminology (with Dragan Milovanovic), and (with Mark Lanier) What is Crime? (2001),Essential Criminology(2004), andThe Essential Criminology Reader. He serves on the editorial boards ofTheoretical Criminology andCritical Criminology and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Integrative Studies.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0847698076
• ISBN 13: 9780847698073
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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