The Problem of Crime

Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.A.: Sage Pubns. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0761969705 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 352 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface Introduction 1 Ch. 1 The Construction and Deconstruction of Crime 5 Ch. 2 Crime and Social Order: Interrogating the Detective Story 65 Ch. 3 Crime, Order and Historical Change 101 Ch. 4 Dangerous Places: Crime and the City 143 Ch. 5 Dangerous Places: The Family as a Site of Crime 183 Ch. 6 Hidden and Respectable: Crime and the Market 227 Ch. 7 Political Violence, Terrorism and Crimes of the State 267 Acknowledgements 320 Index 322 -- DESCRIPTION: This second edition of The Problem of Crime offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in the study of crime. The book considers how the criminological gaze has shifted its focus from a preoccupation with 'crimes of the streets' to examining also the serious social harms and injuries associated with crime in the city, child abuse, domestic violence, organized crime, corporate crime, political violence, hate crime and crimes of the state. The book also emphasizes the necessity of studying the staging and representation of crime in the news media and popular culture. In doing so The Problem of Crime highlights the ways that criminologists are currently challenging and reformulating the concept of crime. Drawing on a wide range of explanatory and illustrative material, the contributors interrogate the proposition that there are universally agreed conceptions of what constitutes the crime problem. A persistent and widespread public concern with crime suggests that everyone knows what it is. However, each chapter in this book shows that 'crime' carries a range of meanings and understandings that are open to disputation, and which shift historically and culturally. Ranging over a wide variety of issues, this fully revised and updated edition will be essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, social policy and sociology, and also for readers with a general interest in crime. -- with a bonus offer-- .