| What Is Crime?: Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It Contributor(s): Henry, Stuart (Author), Lanier, Mark M. (Author), Adler, Mortimer J. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0847698076 ISBN-13: 9780847698073 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $60.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: 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. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364 |
| LCCN: 00062694 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.77 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
