Crime and Society - Readings in History and Theory

Sommario

General introduction PART I HISTORY: INTRODUCTION Law and Ideology 1 Property, authority and the criminal law 2 Popular attitudes to the law in the eighteenth century 3 The ideological origins of the penitentiary Policing 4 Towards a national standard of police 5 The plague of the blue locusts: police reform and popular resistance in Northern England, 1840–57 6 Policing the working—class city 7 White—collar crime and the institutionalisation of ambiguity: the case of the early Factory Acts Dangerous Classes 8 A visit to the rookery of St Giles and its neighbourhood 9 On the number of costermongers and other street folk 10 The threat of outcast London Criminalization and Youth 11 The street children of London 12 Vagrancy and delinquency in an urban setting PART II THEORY: INTRODUCTION Footprints on the sand: a further report on criminology and the sociology of deviance in Britain 14 Thinking seriously about crime: some models of criminology 15 Individual deviance: the search for the criminal personality 16 Social disorganisation theories 17 Moral development and the family: the genesis of crime 18 Humanising the deviant: affinity and affiliation theories 19 The person and group reality 20 Law, class and control

Info autore

Mike Fitzgerald, Gregor McLennan, Jennie Pawson

Riassunto

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mike Mclennan Fitzgerald
• Con la collaborazione di: Mike Fitzgerald (Editore), Fitzgerald Mike (Editore), Gregor McLennan (Editore), Professor Gregor (University of Bristol) McLennan (Editore), McLennan Gregor (Editore), Jennie Pawson (Editore), Pawson Jennie (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138175822
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17582-2
• Pagine: 516
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General