Crimes of Dissent - Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Preface 1. Crime and Dissent; 2. Society and Its Discontents; 3. Dissent as 'Pure' Crime; 4. Policing Dissent; 5. Working the System; 6. The Impact of Dissent Appendix: Activist Profiles; Notes; Index; About the Author

Summary

A fascinating insiders look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social change

Product details

• Authors: Jarret Lovell, Jarret S. Lovell, Karen Mortensen
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780814752265
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-5226-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Alternative Criminology; Alternative Criminology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology