What Is Crime?: Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It

by Stuart Henry and Mark M. Lanier

Book Overview

For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847698076
• ISBN13: 9780847698073
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"