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Informationen zum Autor Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph. D. in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Davis, un til the mid-1990s when he went back to Bologna. He has published The Prison and the Factory (1977, together with Massimo Pavarini), The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy (1990), and Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America (2008), plus about 200 other edited books, chapters, and articles. He has been Editor of Studi sulla questione criminale , is currently Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society, and is member of the Board of many other professional journals. In 2007 he was conferred the “International Scholarship Prize” of the Law and Society Association and in 2014 the “European Criminology Award” of the European Society of Criminology. His current research concerns the process of construction of deviance and social control within the European Union, especially with regard to migration processes. Klappentext This text looks at crime and migration from both a socio-historical and criminological approach, providing readers with an authoritative account of this much-debated area. Zusammenfassung This text looks at crime and migration from both a socio-historical and criminological approach! providing readers with an authoritative account of this much-debated area. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Crime and Migration, Development of a Relationship Chapter 2: Crime, Punishment and Migration in an Age of Globalization: America Chapter 3: Crime, Punishment and Migration in an Age of Globalization: Europe Chapter 4: The Importance of Legal Status in a Globalized World In Conclusion: Crime, Migration, Social Change and Innovation ...
