The Socio-economics of Crime and Justice

This book on crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility. Forst has assembled a collection of authors who are writing in four parts: (1) the philosophical foundations and the moral dimension of crime and punishment; (2) the sense of community and the way it influences the problem of crime; (3) on offenders and offences; and (4) on the response of the criminal justice system.

List of contents

1: Socio-Economics, Crime, and Justice; I: Foundations; 2: Justice and Punishment: Philosophical Basics; 3: Economic Perspectives on Criminality: An Eclectic View; 4: The Limits of Legal Sanctions; II: The Community in the Human; 5: Crime, Conscience, and Family; 6: Crime and Ethnicity; 7: Women, Crime, and Justice; III: Offenders and Offenses; 8: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice; 9: Community Responses to Crime and Fear of Crime; 10: Social Structure and Spouse Assault; 11: School Violence and the Breakdown of Community Homogeneity; IV: The Criminal Justice System; 12: Good Policing; 13: The Prosecutor and the Public; 14: The Honest Politician's Guide to Sentencing Reform

About the author

Brian Forst

Summary

This study of crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Forst, Forst Brian
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1993
• EAN: 9781563240744
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-074-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment