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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (48 entries) : 5 images ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
SAGE key concepts series |
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SAGE key concepts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section One: Understanding crime and criminality: 1. Crime (definition of); 2. Deviance (definition of); 3. Crime in pre-industrial, pre-modern and post-modern societies; 4. The criminal justice system; 5. Social construction of crime and deviance; 6. Crime and theory; 7. Social control, governance and governmentality; 8. Researching crime; 9. Crime statistics; 10. Prevalence, incidence and incident of crime; 11. Risk from crime; 12. Why people commit crime; 13. Fear and the fear of crime; 14. Poverty and exclusion; 15. Victims of crime; 16. Normalisation; 17. Gender and crime; 18. Youth and crime; 19. Race/ethnicity and crime; 20. White-collar/middle-class and corporate-class crime -- Section Two: Types of crime and criminality: 21. Human trafficking/slavery; 22. Sex work; 23. Victimless crime; 24. Drug-related crime and violence; 25. Gangs; 26. Environmental crime and green criminology; 27. Rural crime; 28. Internet/cyber crime; 29. State crime; 30. War crime; 31. Terrorism; 32. Violence/interpersonal violence -- Section Three: Responses to crime: 33. Crime and the media; 34. Moral panics; 35. Police and policing; 36. Deterrence and prevention; 37. Punishment; 38. Prisons; 39. Rehabilitation; 40. Alternatives to imprisonment. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Key Concepts in Crime and Society offers an authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Criminology.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Donnermeyer, Joseph F., author.
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McElrath, Karen, 1959- author.
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Scott, John Geoffrey, author.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Added Title |
Crime and society |
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Crime & society |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 0857022555 9780857022554 (DLC) 2014948904 xiii, 183 pages : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9780857022561 pbk. |
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0857022563 pbk. |
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0857022555 |
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9780857022554 |
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1473925290 |
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9781473925298 |
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9781787853553 electronic version |
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