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This book discusses a range of crimes of the powerless as well as crimes of the powerful. Against conventional analysis of criminal behaviour as a result of social disadvantage, unemployment, or lack of resources, the author argues that abundance of opportunities and resources may lead to specific forms of criminality.
Crime and Markets
Essays in Anti-Criminology
$132.06
- Hardcover
214 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2000
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Summary
This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminalbehaviour. In other words, eac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198268383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198268386 |
| Author: | Vincenzo Ruggiero |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 214 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 144mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Clarendon Studies in Criminology |
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About The Author
Vincenzo Ruggiero
Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Science, Middlesex University
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