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Klappentext What is meant by crime, crime prevention and crime control? Who defines the acts which are deemed as criminal? Who devises the sanctions and who acts as agents of social control? This timely and challenging book brings together a group of leading international criminologists from all sides of the political spectrum. They first examine the formation and implementation of official crime prevention and control policies. In the second part they look at a range of critical perspectives which explore the definition of crime and discuss proposals for its prevention and control. Zusammenfassung An examination of the debates over the meaning of crime and the appropriate strategies of crime control! this book contrasts crime control strategies between countries. It considers the formation and implementation of policy in Europe! the UK and the USA and the radical alternatives used. Inhaltsverzeichnis Making Sense of Crime Control - Kevin Stenson PART ONE: CONTROL AND PREVENTION IN PRACTICE The Politics of Crime The American Experience A Debate Between Elliot Currie and James Q Wilson Crime Prevention - John Bright The British Experience The Political Construction of Crime Prevention - Michael King A Contrast Between the French and British Experience The Politics of Prostitution and Drug Control - Neil Boyd and John Lowman PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO PREVENTION AND CONTROL Freedom, Responsibility and Justice - Chris R Tame The Criminology of the `New Right¿ Left Realism and the Priorities of Crime Control - Jock Young The Theoretical and Political Priorities of Critical Criminology - Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick Violence Against Women and Children - Jill Radford and Elizabeth A Stanko The Contradictions of Crime Control under Patriarchy Abolitionism and Crime Control - Willem de Haan A Contradiction in Terms
