The Problem Of Crime

Praise for the First EditionBy providing accessible and readable introductions to often neglected aspectsof crime the volume is a welcome change from texts focu... » 

Praise for the First EditionBy providing accessible and readable introductions to often neglected aspectsof crime the volume is a welcome change from texts focusing on the moreconventionally constructed problems of juvenile crime theft and violent crime Reviewing SociologyThis second edition of The Problem of Crime offers a comprehensive analysis ofsome of the most important developments in the study of crime. The bookconsiders how the criminological gaze has shifted its focus from apreoccupation with crimes of the streets to examining also the serious socialharms and injuries associated with crime in the city child abuse domesticviolence organized crime corporate crime political violence hate crime andcrimes of the state. The book also emphasizes the necessity of studying thestaging and representation of crime in the news media and popular culture. Indoing so The Problem of Crime highlights the ways that criminologists arecurrently challenging and reformulating the concept of crime.Drawing on a wide range of explanatory and illustrative material thecontributors interrogate the proposition that there are universally agreedconceptions of what constitutes the crime problem. A persistent and widespreadpublic concern with crime suggests that everyone knows what it is. Howevereach chapter in this book shows that crime carries a range of meanings andunderstandings that are open to disputation and which shift historically andculturally.Ranging over a wide variety of issues this fully revised and updated editionwill be essential reading for students of criminology criminal justice sociolegal studies social policy and sociology and also for readers with a generalinterest in crime.The Problem of Crime is a course text for the Open University course CrimeOrder and Social Control D315. «