Constructing Crime
Title | Constructing Crime PDF eBook |
Author | C. Gregoriou |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-02-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230392083 |
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Constructing Crime
Title | Constructing Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Victor E. Kappeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Constructing Crime
Title | Constructing Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Mosher |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2010-05-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774859466 |
Constructing Crime examines why particular behaviours are defined and enforced as crimes and particular individuals are targeted as criminals. Contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five areas � the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling. These case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andr�e Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why.
Constructing Crime
Title | Constructing Crime PDF eBook |
Author | C. Gregoriou |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2012-02-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230392083 |
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Voices of Crime
Title | Voices of Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Luz Huertas Castillo |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2016-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816533040 |
"The book is a collection of essays looking at histories of crime and justice in Latin America, with a focus on social history and the interactions between state institutions, the press, and social groups. It argues that crime in Latin America is best understood from the "bottom up" -- not just as the exercise of power from the state. The book seeks to document and illustrate the "every day" experiences of crime in particular settings, emphasizing under-researched historical actors such as criminals, victims, and police officers"--Provided by publisher.
The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Title | The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Oxford University Press |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 2010-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199803706 |
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Smart on Crime
Title | Smart on Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Garrick L. Percival |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-07-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1498703143 |
The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this dramatic turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of actors in the American government system to construct a penal system that is more rational and humane. Author Garrick L. Percival points out that the prison boom did not naturally emerge as a governmental response to increasing crime rates. Instead, political forces actively built and shaped the growth of a more aggressive and populated penal system. He is optimistic that the shifting political forces surrounding crime and punishment can now reform the system, explaining how current political actors can craft more constructive and just policies and programs. The book shows how rationality and humanitarianism lead to a penal system that imprisons fewer people, does less harm to the lives of individual offenders and those close to them, and is less expensive to maintain. The book presents empirical data to concretely demonstrate what is working and what is not in today’s penal system. It closely examines policies and practices in Texas, Ohio, and California as comparative illustrations on what progress has been made or needs to be made in penal systems across the United States. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of highlighted issues, and relates more than two dozen interviews with pivotal political actors who clarify why there is a major shift underway in the American penal system. Their insights reveal paths that can be taken to improve the current penal system.