What Is Crime? - Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2001
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	Stuart Henry • Mark M. Lanier
Contributors:	Mortimer J. Adler • Kathyrn Ann Farr • Marc Gertz • Don C Gibbons • Leroy C. Gould • Scott Greer • John Hagan • Gary Kleck
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-9807-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8476-9807-6
Barcode:	9780847698073

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