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Dario Melossi - Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America - 9780745634289 - V9780745634289
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Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America

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Description for Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America Hardback. Written by one of criminology's few internationally-recognised figures. Has potential to be a classic, "must-read" text, offering a sweeping overview of anxieties about crime in Europe and the US and the public and political responses to them. Clear linear development through history from the Renaissance to today. Num Pages: 324 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JHB; JKVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America? How did they come to occupy centre-stage in the ongoing drama played out in public discourse? And how have theories of crime and deviance related to the actual practices of social control and punishment, and to the main currents of social conflict?

In this illuminating new book, Dario Melossi addresses these crucial questions, and at the same time offers an engaging survey of the theories of social control, crime and deviance. From the early work of Beccaria and Lombroso, via ... Read more

Conceived and written by a scholar who has been active for many years both in Europe and the United States, the text will be an invaluable aid to advanced students and scholars of sociology and criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745634289
SKU
V9780745634289
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Dario Melossi
Dario Melossi is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bologna.

Reviews for Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America
"I strongly recommend the book to students, teachers and researchers ... Melossi's reconnection of criminological theory with sociological, political and economic themes makes this book a 'must read'." British Journal of Criminology “Dario Melossi bestrides the worlds of American and European criminologies as few others can. He has been a key figure on both ... Read more

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