What is crime?
Subtitle: controversies over the nature of crime and what to do about it
By: edited by Stuart Henry and Mark M. Lanier.
Contributors: Henry, Stuart.; Lanier, Mark.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime in context: the scope of the problem / Mark M. Lanier and Stuart Henry; title: The nature of crime / Jerome Michael and Mortimer J. Adler / Who is the criminal? / Paul W. Tappan; title: Defining patterns of crime and types of offenders / Don C. Gibbons and Kathryn Ann Farr; title: Defenders of order or guardians of human rights? / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger; title: Crime as social interaction / Leroy C. Gould, Gary Kleck, and Marc Gertz; title: Defining crime in a community setting: negotiation and legitimation of community claims / Paul Schnorr; title: The media's role in the definition of crime / Ray Surette and Charles Otto; title: Racing crime: definition and dilemmas / Katheryn K. Russell; title: Constitutive definiton of crime: power as harm / Dragan Milovanovic and Stuart Henry; title: A needs-based, social harms defintinon of crime / Larry L. Tifft and Dennis C. Sullivan; title: Crime as desrepute / Scott Greer and John Hagan; title: The prism of crime: toward an itegrated definition of crime / Stuart Henry and Mark M. Lanier.