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Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment - Space, Time and Politics (Hardcover)
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Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment - Space, Time and Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
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The question of inequality has moved decisively to the top of the
contemporary intellectual agenda. Going beyond Thomas Piketty's
focus on wealth, increasing inequalities of various kinds, and
their impact on social, political and economic life, now present
themselves among the most urgent issues facing scholars in the
humanities and the social sciences. Key among these is the
relationship between inequality, crime and punishment. The
propositions that social inequality shapes crime and punishment,
and that crime and punishment themselves cause or exacerbate
inequality, are conventional wisdom. Yet, paradoxically, they are
also controversial. In this volume, historians, criminologists,
lawyers, sociologists and political scientists come together to try
to solve this paradox by unpacking these relationships in different
contexts. The causal mechanisms underlying these correlations call
for investigation by means of a sustained programme of research
bringing different disciplines to bear on the problem. This volume
develops an interdisciplinary approach which builds on but goes
beyond recent comparative and historical research on the
institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping
crime and punishment so as better to understand whether, and if so
how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and
types of crime and punishment, and conversely whether crime and
punishment shape inequalities.
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