Peter Eglin, Stephen Hester

A Sociology of Crime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415073707
• ISBN-10: 0415073707
• Artikelnr.: 21125426

Autorenporträt

Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Stephen Hester, University of Wales, Bangor.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Sociology and crime 2 Constructing criminal law 3 Criminalization
and domination 4 Ethnomethodology's law 5 Policing as symbolic interaction
6 The ethnomethodology of policing 7 The political economy of policing 8
Discipline, domination and criminal justice 9 Justice and symbolic
interaction 10 Ethnomethodology in court 11 Crime and punishment 12 The
functions of crime control