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| Author | : C. Gregoriou |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2012-02-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230392083 |
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
| Author | : Janet Mosher |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2010-05-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0774859466 |
Constructing Crime examines why particular behaviours are defined and enforced as crimes and particular individuals are targeted as criminals. Contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five areas � the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling. These case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andr�e Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why.
| Author | : C. Gregoriou |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2012-02-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230392083 |
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
| Author | : Victor E. Kappeler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Luz Huertas Castillo |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2016-11-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0816533040 |
"The book is a collection of essays looking at histories of crime and justice in Latin America, with a focus on social history and the interactions between state institutions, the press, and social groups. It argues that crime in Latin America is best understood from the "bottom up" -- not just as the exercise of power from the state. The book seeks to document and illustrate the "every day" experiences of crime in particular settings, emphasizing under-researched historical actors such as criminals, victims, and police officers"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Richard Rosenfeld |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 22 |
| Release | : 2010-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0199805881 |
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
| Author | : Gregg Barak |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2013-10-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135886113 |
First published in 1995. One of the most pervasive forms of social control in our society is the mass media. The public learns from television, newspapers, magazines, movies, and books what is happening in the world and how to interpret it. The problem, however, is that full or complete interpretations of reality are not presented. In short, reality itself, clear and unadorned, is not to be found in the information provided by the media. Instead, media presentations consist of those various viewpoints that succeed in capturing the minds and imaginations of the masses, or in terms of the 1992 presidential campaign, that successfully put the winning spin on information. Barak and others believe that criminologists should participate in the various media presentations of crime and justice. By bringing their knowledge to bear on media presentations, criminologists can help make some news more representative and less distorted of the social reality of crime.
| Author | : Alison Adam |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-12-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9783030288365 |
This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with authors drawn from law, history, sociology and science and technology studies, this work shows how forensic objectivity is constructed through detailed crime history case studies, mainly in relation to murder, set in Scotland, England, Germany, Sweden, USA and Ireland. Starting from the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, the book argues that a number of developments were crucial. These include: the beginning of crime photography, the use of diagrams and models specially constructed for the courtroom so jurors could be ‘virtual witnesses’, probabilistic models of certainty, the professionalization of medical and scientific expert witnesses and their networks, ways of measuring, recording and developing criminal records and the role of the media, particularly newspapers in reporting on crime, criminals and legal proceedings and their part in the shaping of public opinion on crime. This essential title demonstrates the ways in which forensic objectivity has become a central concept in relation to criminal justice over a period spanning 170 years.
| Author | : Yvonne Jewkes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1134009879 |
This text provides an account and an analysis of key issues within the field of cybercrime. It focuses on different constructions and manifestations of cybercrime and diverse responses to its regulation.
| Author | : Heather Schoenfeld |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2018-02-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022652101X |
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world’s leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it? Reframing the story of mass incarceration, Heather Schoenfeld illustrates how the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans led to a series of policy choices that expanded the government’s power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence. Examining civil rights protests, prison condition lawsuits, sentencing reforms, the War on Drugs, and the rise of conservative Tea Party politics, Schoenfeld explains why politicians veered from skepticism of prisons to an embrace of incarceration as the appropriate response to crime. To reduce the number of people behind bars, Schoenfeld argues that we must transform the political incentives for imprisonment and develop a new ideological basis for punishment.
