| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 223 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oñati international series in law and society
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Oñati international series in law and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Cultural embeddedness of punishment -- pt. 2. Diffusion of post-Fordist penalty -- pt. 3. Travels of discourses of criminology and crime prevention. |
| Summary |
The expression 'the criminal question' does not at present have much currency in English-language criminology. The term was carried across from Italian debates about the orientation of criminology, and in particular debates about what came to be called critical criminology. One definition offered early in the debate described it as 'an area constituted by actions, institutions, policies and discourses whose boundaries shift'. According to this writer, crime, and the cultural and symbolic significance carried by law and criminal justice, is an integral aspect of the criminal question.'The crimi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Criminology -- Philosophy.
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Criminology -- Philosophy. |
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Criminology. |
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Criminology -- Europe.
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Europe. |
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Criminal law -- Philosophy.
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Criminal law -- Philosophy. |
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Criminal law -- Europe.
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Criminal law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Criminal law. |
| Added Author |
Melossi, Dario, 1948-
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Sozzo, Máximo.
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Sparks, Richard, 1961-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Travels of the criminal question. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2011 9781849460767 (DLC) 2011378227 (OCoLC)705276126 |
| ISBN |
9781847316257 (electronic book) |
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1847316255 (electronic book) |
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9781849460767 |
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1849460760 |
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9781849460774 |
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1849460779 |
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