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Informationen zum Autor By Stuart Henry and Mark M. Lanier - Contributions by Mortimer J. Adler; Kathyrn Ann Farr; Marc Gertz; Don C. Gibbons; Leroy C. Gould; Scott Greer; John Hagan; Gary Kleck; Jerome Michael; Dragan Milovanovic; Charles Otto; Katheryn K. Russell; Paul Schnorr Klappentext In What Is Crime?, the first book-length treatment of the topic, contributors debate the content of crime from diverse perspectives: consensus/moral, cultural/relative, conflict/power, anarchist/critical, feminist, racial/ethnic, postmodernist, and integrational. Henry and Lanier synthesize these perspectives and explore what each means for crime control policy. Zusammenfassung For decades! scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behaviour count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Or is it behaviour that causes serious harm? This examination of crime features contributors who debate the content of crime from various diverse perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Crime in Context: The Scope of the Problem Part 3 Classic Statements Chapter 4 The Nature of Crime Chapter 5 Who Is the Criminal? Chapter 6 Defining Patterns of Crime and Types of Offenders Chapter 7 Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights? Part 8 New Directions Chapter 9 Crime as Social Interaction Chapter 10 Defining Crime in a Community Setting: Negotiation and Legitimation of Community Claims Chapter 11 The Media's Role in the Definition of Crime Chapter 12 Racing Crime: Definitions and Dilemmas Chapter 13 Constitutive Definition of Crime: Power as Harm Chapter 14 A Needs-Based, Social Harms Definition of Crime Part 15 Integrating Approaches Chapter 16 Crime as Disrepute Chapter 17 The Prism of Crime: Toward an Integrated Definition of Crime Chapter 18 Notes Chapter 19 Index Chapter 20 About the Authors
