The Criminology of Criminal LawFreda Adler, William S. Laufer The Criminology of Criminal Law considers the relation between criminal law and theories of crime, criminality and justice. This book discusses a wide range of topics, including: the way in which white-collar crime is defined; new perspectives on stranger violence; the reasons why criminologists have neglected the study of genocide; the idea of boundary crossing in the control of deviance; the relation between punishment and social solidarity; the connection between the notion of justice and modern sentencing theory; the social reaction to treason; and the association between politics and punitiveness. Contributors include Bonnie Berry, Don Gottfredson, David F. Greenberg, Marc Riedel, Jason Rourke, Kip Schlegel, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Leslie T. Wilkins, Marvin E. Wolfgang, and Richard A. Wright. "The Criminology of Criminal Law" concludes with an analysis of the results of a study on the most cited scholars in the Advances in Criminological Theory series. This work will be beneficial to criminologists, sociologists, and scholars of legal studies. Advances in Criminological Theory" "is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory. It was created to overcome the neglect of theory construction and validation in existing criminological publications. |
Contents
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A Perspective on Stranger Violence | 29 |
The Forgotten Criminology of Genocide | 71 |
A Critique | 107 |
A Review | 135 |
An Assessment of Wolfgangs conceptualization | 171 |
Sentencing Disparity and Sentencing Guidelines | 199 |
Punishment Policy and Commensurate Complexity | 233 |
Unpopular Views on Sentencing Theory | 247 |
Essex County Court 19761977 | 258 |
Punishment Division of Labor and Social Solidarity | 283 |
A Reminder of the Importance | 363 |
Boundary Crossings | 409 |
Justiļ¬able Homicide by Civilians | 463 |
The MostCited Scholars and Works in Criminological Theory | 493 |
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