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Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
Avi Brisman
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Description for Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
Hardback. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKVQ2; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes crime, identifying those affected by it, and what is deemed adequate or appropriate punishment. In so doing, it offers thick description of young peoples' conceptions of and experiences with crime, delinquency, justice and law, and uses this ... Read more
This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes crime, identifying those affected by it, and what is deemed adequate or appropriate punishment. In so doing, it offers thick description of young peoples' conceptions of and experiences with crime, delinquency, justice and law, and uses this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137546197
SKU
V9781137546197
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Avi Brisman
Avi Brisman is Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, USA. He is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (2013), co-editor of Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues (2015), and co-author of Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide (2014).
Reviews for Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
Brisman's work-like his title-is a complex and layered geometry of claims that in fact emerge out of his deeply reflective concerns with the very project he initiated. His work is to be read carefully, as it is in fact a very layered story of one scholar's own process of grappling with what at first attracted him as an innovation that ... Read more