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Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Braithwaite, John

 
9780415858199: Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415858194 ISBN 13: 9780415858199
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime, and presents its own findings on these matters. It explores two major questions. First, do policies designed to redistribute wealth and power within capitalist societies have effects upon crime? Second, do policies created to overcome the residential segregation of social classes have effects on crime? The book provides a brilliantly comprehensive and systematic review of the empirical evidence to support or refute the classic theories of Engles, Bonger, Merton, Cloward and Ohlin, Cohen, Miller, Shaw and McKay, amongst many others. Braithwaite confronts these theories with evidence of the extent and nature of white collar crime, and a consideration of the way law enhancement and law enforcement might serve class interest.

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John Braithwaite

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415858194
ISBN 13 
9780415858199
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
348