Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Birkbeck, Christopher Klappentext This study examines the ways in which the moral community is 'talked into being' in relation to crime! and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two groups in the 'history of the present'. Zusammenfassung This book examines the nature of collective morality as it materializes in public commentary about crime in the Americas and identifies the ways in which the moral community is talked into being and how the imagined moral universe is mapped. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Collective Moral Discourse 2. Making Crime "Our" Concern 3. "We the good" 4. The moral outlook 5. Moral agency 6. American melodramas 7. The artifacts of talk 8. Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Birkbeck, Birkbeck Christopher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2012
• EAN: 9780415529815
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52981-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ethnic Studies, History, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Humanities, Regional Studies, Legal aspects of criminology, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Criminology: legal aspects