- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (30 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333725026
- ISBN-13: 978-0333725023
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,905,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation. It includes discussion of contemporary issues such as steroid use, gun control, privatised policing and youth scares involving alcopops and drugs. It also re-examines recurring issues about policing and punishment. The authors include: Rebecca and Russell Dobash, Chris Hale, Dick Hobbs, Ian Loader, Tim Newburn, Howard Parker, Richard Sparks, and Ian Taylor.
About the Author
PAT CARLEN is presently Professor of Sociology at Bath University and before that was Professor of Criminology at Keele University. She has published twelve books addressing the relationships between crime and social justice, including Magistrates' Justice (1976), Women's Imprisonment (1983) and Jigsaw - A Political Criminology of Youth Homelessness (1996). She was a member of both the Commissioning Panel and The Steering Committee of the ESRC Crime and Social Order Programme 1992-1997.
ROD MORGAN is Professor of Criminal Justice at Bristol University and Director of the Bristol Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has published many books and articles on crime, criminal justice and imprisonment, the most recent being The Future of Policing (with Tim Newburn, 1997) and The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (edited with Mike Maguire and Robert Reiner, now into its second edition, 1997). His study of Preventing Torture (with Malcolm Evans) will shortly be published. He was a member of the Commissioning Panel and Chair of the Steering Committee for the ESRC Crime and Social Order Programme 1992-1997.
ROD MORGAN is Professor of Criminal Justice at Bristol University and Director of the Bristol Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has published many books and articles on crime, criminal justice and imprisonment, the most recent being The Future of Policing (with Tim Newburn, 1997) and The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (edited with Mike Maguire and Robert Reiner, now into its second edition, 1997). His study of Preventing Torture (with Malcolm Evans) will shortly be published. He was a member of the Commissioning Panel and Chair of the Steering Committee for the ESRC Crime and Social Order Programme 1992-1997.
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