Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Birkbeck, Birkbeck Christopher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2014
• EAN: 9780415644778
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64477-8
• 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