The problem of crime
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The problem of crime
（Crime, order and social control）
SAGE in association with the Open University, 1996
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Problem of Crime adopts a series of vantage points to assess the nature, meaning and extent of crime in society. The areas covered include: the measurement of crime; media and fictional representations of crime; social histories of crime and punishment; crime in the inner cities; crime in the home; corporate crime; and crimes of the state.
The book is designed to reveal the diversity and ubiquity of crime, and the problematic nature of the concept itself. It broadens popular understandings of the crime problem by encouraging a critical reflection on the nature of social orders which appear to generate a whole series of social problems for their citizens, but which select only a few to be sites of criminal sanction.
This innovative teaching text is a course text for The Open University course D315 Crime, Order and Social Control.
Table of Contents
Introduction - John Muncie and Eugene McLaughlin
The Construction and Deconstruction of Crime - John Muncie
Crime and Social Order - John Clarke
Interrogating the Detective Story
Crime, Order and Historical Change - Jim Sharpe
Dangerous Places - Peggotty Graham and John Clarke
Crime and the City
Dangerous Places - Esther Saraga
The Family as a Site of Crime
Hidden and Respectable - Mary Langan
Crime and the Market
Political Violence, Terrorism and Crimes of the State - Eugene McLaughlin
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