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Power and Crime
Contributor(s): Ruggiero, Vincenzo (Author)
ISBN: 1138792373     ISBN-13: 9781138792371
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economics - Theory
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 364.01
LCCN: 2014038524
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
Physical Information: 174 pages
 
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This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology. Although arguably a 'rendezvous' discipline, Vincenzo Ruggiero argues that criminology can gain much insight from other fields such as the political sciences, ethics, social theory, critical legal studies, economic theory, and classical literature.

In this book Ruggiero offers an authoritative synthesis of a range of intellectual conceptions of crime and power, drawing on the works and theories of classical, as well as contemporary thinkers, in the above fields of knowledge, arguing that criminology can 'humbly' renounce claims to intellectual independence and adopt notions and perspectives from other disciplines.

The theories presented locate the crimes of the powerful in different disciplinary contexts and make the book essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of criminology, sociology, law, politics and philosophy.