Harry Adams

High and Low Corruption

Children, Capabilities, and Crime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes "high corruption" in terms of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime and "low corruption" in terms of juvenile delinquency and street crime. It shows how this former type of corruption contributes to the latter type and also explains how both types should be curbed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781666932546
• ISBN-10: 166693254X
• Artikelnr.: 69082699

Autorenporträt

Harry Adams has taught assistant professor at the University of Texas (UTPA/RGV) and as associate professor at Prairie View A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Low Corruption: Delinquency and Street Crime by Society's Most
Powerless Members
Chapter 2. High Corruption: Suite Crime by Society's Most Powerful Members
Chapter 3. The Powerful Harming the Powerless
Chapter 4. Improved Social Games: From Corrupt States to Non-Corrupt
Societies
Chapter 5. Non-Corrupt Societies: Capabilities Developed, Power(s)
Well-Managed
Chapter 6. Criminal Justice Conditions of Non-Corrupt Societies
Conclusion: Models of Corrupt and Non-Corrupt Societies
Appendix 1. Sentencing Street Criminals and Suite Criminals
Appendix 2. Epigraphs on Corruption
Appendix 3. Further Reading
Appendix 4. Detailed Chapter Contents
Bibliography
About the Author