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What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Stuart Henry (Author) , Mark M. Lanier (Author) , Mortimer J. Adler (Contributor) , Kathyrn Ann Farr (Contributor) , Marc Gertz (Contributor) , Don C. Gibbons (Contributor) ,
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What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Stuart Henry (Author) , Mark M. Lanier (Author) , Mortimer J. Adler (Contributor) , Kathyrn Ann Farr (Contributor) , Marc Gertz (Contributor) , Don C. Gibbons (Contributor) ,
- Textbook
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Crime in Context: The Scope of the Problem
Part 3 Classic Statements
Chapter 4 The Nature of Crime
Chapter 5 Who Is the Criminal?
Chapter 6 Defining Patterns of Crime and Types of Offenders
Chapter 7 Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights?
Part 8 New Directions
Chapter 9 Crime as Social Interaction
Chapter 10 Defining Crime in a Community Setting: Negotiation and Legitimation of Community Claims
Chapter 11 The Media's Role in the Definition of Crime
Chapter 12 Racing Crime: Definitions and Dilemmas
Chapter 13 Constitutive Definition of Crime: Power as Harm
Chapter 14 A Needs-Based, Social Harms Definition of Crime
Part 15 Integrating Approaches
Chapter 16 Crime as Disrepute
Chapter 17 The Prism of Crime: Toward an Integrated Definition of Crime
Chapter 18 Notes
Chapter 19 Index
Chapter 20 About the Authors
Product details
| Published | Feb 07 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781461646921 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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