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Criminal Obsessions
Criminal obsessions is a critique of conventional criminological approaches to social issues. The contributors show how social harm relates to social and economic inequalities that are at the heart of the liberal state. This second edition of Criminal obsessions includes an additional essay by Simon Pemberton in which he develops theoretically the concept of social harm and discusses the future of the social harm perspective.
Crime and Society in Britain
This book looks at how crimes are defined, socially constructed, researched and analyzed. Exploring the relationship between crime and social equality, the text applies these insights to specific patterns of crime.
The Origins of Modern Financial Crime
The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime. Focusing on this change and ‘crime in the commercial sphere’, this text considers the legal and economic dimensions of financial crime and its significance in societal consciousness in twenty-first century Britain. Considering how strongly criminal enforcement specifically features in identifying the post-crisis years as a ‘turning point’, it argues that nineteenth-century encounters with financial crime were transformative for contemporary British societal perceptions of ‘crime’ and its perpetrators, and have lasting resonance for legal responses and societal re...
Crime, Persistent Offenders and the Justice Gap
The government's crime reduction strategy risks targeting the "usual suspects" rather than those who cause the most harm or pose the greatest risk. This paper points out that many of those who commit hidden crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assaults and crimes against children do not come to the attention of the authorities. This means that the government's strategy to target known offenders is likely to ignore them. The paper also argues that government spin on crime figures is misleading and counterproductive.
Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900
Clive Emsley examines the changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society, and challenges such simplistic views of crime as the work of a criminal class, and changes in the justice system as solely due to humanitarian reformers.
Creating Criminals
Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national borders. The rich may retreat behind their expensive security into gated communities, but the poor are more and more at the mercy of criminals and corrupt policing. Yet, Vivien Stern argues, the trends towards more criminalization and more imprisonment are not making for more effective crime control or safer communities. This important book demonstrates that the prospects for the future are serious unless NGOs and reformers join in a new movement for reform that gives more control of justice policy back to communities and neighbourhoods.
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Social Aspects of Crime in England between the Wars
Originally published in 1940. This ground-breaking work formed the foundation for modern criminology becoming an academic discipline within UK sociological studies. It concerns the history of crime, its causes and treatment in England during the preceding twenty-five years or so. Mannheim, through this and later studies, went on to found the criminology department at LSE. The book offers an evaluation of the criminological implications of the War and early post-War period as well as an examination of the practical working of the new penal machinery built up by the Reform Acts passed just prior to the War. The author produced a scientific account of the post-War state of crime, beginning with...
Crime and Society
This book offers a wide-ranging, international exploration of the many different ways in which crime impacts on social processes. It draws on a wide range of countries and cultures including India, Israel, Nigeria, Turkey, the USA, and Britain and Ireland. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.
