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For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who then polices governments? In What Is Crime? the first book-length treatment of the topic, contributors debate the content of crime from diverse perspectives: consensus/moral, cultural/relative, conflict/power, anarchist/critical, feminist, racial/ethnic, postmodernist, and integrational. Henry and Lanier synthesize these perspectives and explore what each means for crime control policy.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: What Is Crime?
• Subtitle: Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
• Author: Stuart Henry, Mark M. Lanier
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780847698073
• ISBN: 0847698076
• ID: 04943997
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 355 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. February 2001

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