What Is Crime?

Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-02-07
Mått155 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847698073

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Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Crime in Context: The Scope of the ProblemPart 3 Classic StatementsChapter 4 The Nature of CrimeChapter 5 Who Is the Criminal?Chapter 6 Defining Patterns of Crime and Types of OffendersChapter 7 Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights?Part 8 New DirectionsChapter 9 Crime as Social InteractionChapter 10 Defining Crime in a Community Setting: Negotiation and Legitimation of Community ClaimsChapter 11 The Media’s Role in the Definition of CrimeChapter 12 Racing Crime: Definitions and DilemmasChapter 13 Constitutive Definition of Crime: Power as HarmChapter 14 A Needs-Based, Social Harms Definition of CrimePart 15 Integrating ApproachesChapter 16 Crime as DisreputeChapter 17 The Prism of Crime: Toward an Integrated Definition of CrimeChapter 18 NotesChapter 19 IndexChapter 20 About the Authors