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