Nils Christie

Crime Control As Industry

Towards Gulags, Western Style

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crime Control As Industry is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781138690127
• ISBN-10: 1138690120
• Artikelnr.: 44951795

Autorenporträt

Nils Christie (1928 -2015) was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1966. He received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen. Christie is well known for his long standing criticism of drug prohibition, industrial society, and prisons. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition - David Garland Preface. Chapter 1. Efficiency and decency
Chapter 2. The eye of God
Chapter 3. Penal Geography
Chapter 4. Why are there so few prisoners?
Chapter 5. Why are there so many prisoners?
Chapter 6. The Russian case
Chapter 7. USA. the Trend-setter
Chapter 8. Crime control as a product
Chapter 9. Conflicting values
Chapter 10. Modernity in decisions
Chapter 11. Justice done
or managed?
Chapter 12. Modernity and behavior control
Chapter 13. Crime control as culture