Title: Theories of crime and punishment /
Authors: Grant, Claire
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Crime Philosophy.; Criminal behavior.; Punishment Philosophy
Abstract: Theories of Crime and Punishment provides an introduction to scholarship in the sociology of deviance and theoretical criminology from the late 19th century to the present day.
Contents: From Enlightenment jurisprudence to the born criminal -- Durkheim, the Dreyfus affair and the passion of punishment -- The progressive movement and crime in Chicago -- Al Capone, strain theory and the American dream -- Social reaction, the deviant other and the stigmatised self -- The state, the ruling class, and crime -- Women's oppression, crime and society -- Foucault, penalty and social regulation -- Crime and punishment in late modernity.