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Crime, Inequality and Power (Hardcover)
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Crime, Inequality and Power (Hardcover)
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Crime, Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of
crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach.
In this book Eileen Leonard analyzes multiple forms of criminal
behavior in the United States, including violence, sexual assault,
theft, and drug law violations, whilst also asking readers to
consider the parallels between crimes that are rarely thought
comparable. Leonard's juxtaposition of familiar street crimes, such
as car theft, alongside large-scale corporate theft, vividly
exposes profound inequalities in the way crime is defined, and the
treatment it receives within the criminal justice system. Leonard's
analysis also reveals the underlying inequalities of race, class,
and gender which enable the perpetuation of such crimes, as well as
calling into question the reality of fundamental American ideals of
fairness and equal justice. Moreover, the book questions whether
current policies that punish street crime excessively while
minimizing the crimes of the powerful, fail to keep the public
safe. A broader consideration of crime, and the inequalities that
underlie it, offers a fresh opportunity to rethink public policies
and enduring issues of crime and criminal justice. Challenging the
many persistent inequalities in the perception of and response to
crime, this critique of American crime and punishment will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as
scholars, in the fields of criminology, sociology and law.
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