A philosophy of the social construction of crime [electronic resource].
Polizzi, David.
This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.
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A PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME; Contents; 1. PHENOMENOLOGY, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, AND CRIMINALITY: SOME BEGINNING OBSERVATIONS; Why phenomenology and social construction?; The phenomenology of strain; Toward a unified criminology: realistic possibility or philosophical contradiction; How, then, to proceed?; 2. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND STRUCTURAL REALITIES, AND THE MEANING OF BEING; Dasein and the world; Being-in-the-world and the phenomenology of the "they"; The phenomenology of the body as cultural artifact
Integrating this structuring phenomenology3. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR: TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY OF STRAIN; Introduction; The being of being-in-the-world; The experience of strain; 4. SOME CLOSING REFLECTIONS; The apparatus and the they-self: toward a phenomenology of the "subject"; REFERENCES; Newspaper references; Index
This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 13, 2016).
Criminology.
Criminology