Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and America
Publisher: Polity
Published: Dec 03, 2008
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780745634296
Description: This text offers an overview of anxieties about crime in Europe and the U.S. and the public and political responses to it. It compares a European reliance on the 'state' to the U.S. system of social control.