Susanne Karstedt / Kai Bussmann (eds.)

Social Dynamics of Crime and Control

Herausgeber: Bussmann, Kai; Karstedt, Susanne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book assembles essays by leading scholars in their fields of criminology and socio-legal studies. John Braithwaite, John Hagan, Jack Katz, Nicola Lacey, Michael Levi, Joan McCord, Dario Melossi, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld explore new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control. These essays have in common that they transcend disciplinary boundaries by combining criminological and socio-legal perspectives; in so doing they bring fresh perspectives to the analysis of crime in market societies and in the global market place. The authors do not share the apocalyptic and dramatic predictions of rising crime rates, but are aware of the "double movement" of social change and the counteracting forces that emerge in its course. These essays promote an integrative perspective that bridges the gap between etiological criminology and a constructionist approach as well as between explanatory and normative theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781841131641
• ISBN-10: 1841131644
• Artikelnr.: 24989646

Autorenporträt

Kai.-D. Bussmann is Professor of Penal Law and Criminology at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg,Germany. Suzanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Social Change as a Challenge for Criminological Theory
Susanne Karstedt and Kai-D. Bussmann
PART I: CRIME AND THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF MARKETS
2. Market Dominance, Crime and Globalisation
Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld
3. Subterranean Sources of Subcultural Delinquency Beyond the American
Dream
John Hagan, Gerd Hefler, Gabriele Classen, Klaus Boehnke, and Hans Merkens
4. Knights of Crime: The Success of "Pre-Modern" Structures in the Illegal
Economy
Susanne Karstedt
5. Extortion, Corruption and Trust: A Structural-Constructionist
Perspective
Thomas Ohlemacher
PART II: SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL CONTROL
6. Republican Theory, the Good Society and Crime Control
John Braithwaite
7. After the Welfare State: Whither Informal Law?
Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer
8. Shaming and the Regulation of Fraud and Business "Misconduct": Some
Preliminary Explorations
Michael Levi
9. Multinational Firms as Agents of Civic Virtues
Erhard Blankenburg
PART III: CULTURAL DYNAMICS: CONTEXTS OF CRIME AND CONTROL
10. Translating Social Control: Reflections on the Comparison of Italian
and North-American Cultures Concerning Social Control, with a Few
Consequences for a "Critical" Criminology 143
Dario Melossi
11. "Community" and Governance: A Cultural Comparison
Nicola Lacey and Lucia Zedner
12. The Gang Myth
Jack Katz
13. Explaining the Absence of Violence: A Comparative Approach
Willem de Haan
PART IV: THE INDIVIDUAL IN A DYNAMIC SOCIETY: CHALLENGES AND CHANCES
14. Desistance from Crime: Life History, Turning Points and Implications
for Theory Construction in Criminology
Elmar G. M Weitekamp, Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Wolfgang Stelly and Jürgen Thomas
15. A Theory of Motivation and the Life Course
Joan McCord
16. Variation, Selection and Stabilisation: An Evolutionary Theory of Crime
and Control
Kai-D. Bussmann