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

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

Henry, Stuart
Lanier, Mark M.
Adler, Mortimer J.

Paperback

Criminology

ISBN10: 0847698076
ISBN13: 9780847698073
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 7 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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