Why Crime Occurs In Society

Author : Romina Müller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783640984718

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Why Crime Occurs in Society by Romina Müller Pdf

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 100/100, Lindenwood University, language: English, abstract: Crime occurs every day in our society, leaving criminologists with the task to find the reasons for it. Over the years, they have come up with numerous theories to explain the phenomenon of crime, all shooting at different directions. Some of those theories hold environmental, psychological, biological, or family factors responsible for turning random people into criminals. Although many of those theories have something true and convincing about them, this paper analyzes rational choice theory as the most important factor and its explanation of crime. It explains why criminals decide by themselves whether it pays off to break the law or not.

Author : Gresham M. Sykes
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000000036153

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Crime and Society by Gresham M. Sykes Pdf

Author : Donna Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351207416

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Crime and Society by Donna Youngs Pdf

Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity, crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. This book reviews some of the direct and indirect social impacts of criminality, proposing that this is worthwhile, not just in terms of understanding crime, but also because of how it elucidates more general social considerations. A range of studies that examine the interactions between crime and society are brought together, drawing on a wide range of countries and cultures including India, Israel, Nigeria, Turkey, and the USA, as well as the UK and Ireland. They include contributions from many different social science disciplines, which, taken together, demonstrate that the implicit and direct impact of crime is very widespread indeed. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Author : Arrigo, Bruce,Sellers, Brian
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529205275

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The Pre-Crime Society by Arrigo, Bruce,Sellers, Brian Pdf

We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.

Author : Paul Battersby
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 134944880X

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The Unlawful Society by Paul Battersby Pdf

Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transnational crime, this book uses the innovative concept of unlawfulness to examine the crimes of the global overworld, forming a unique analysis of global order in the twenty-first century.

Author : Simon Harding
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447317180

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The Street Casino by Simon Harding Pdf

Gang violence is a continual problem in urban neighborhoods around the world. But most of our understanding of the violence and its causes comes through the lens of policing and crime control, with little attention to the role played by the structure, organization, and social makeup of a gang. The Street Casino offers new insight on that front, drawing on an extensive ethnographic study of gang members and community residents in South London. Simon Harding uses this new data to propose a new theoretical perspective on survival in violent street gangs, a constantly fluctuating life built on the accrual of ?street capital.”

Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383

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Fixing Broken Windows by George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles Pdf

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Author : Michael Boudreau
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774822077

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City of Order by Michael Boudreau Pdf

Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing: modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. To create a bulwark against further social dislocation, citizens, policy makers, and officials modernized the city's machinery of order � courts, prisons, and the police force � and placed greater emphasis on crime control. These tough-on-crime measures, Boudreau argues, did not resolve problems but rather singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order.

Author : Don C. Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044528813

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Society, Crime, and Criminal Behavior by Don C. Gibbons Pdf

Author : Vania A Ceccato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135005559

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Rural Crime and Community Safety by Vania A Ceccato Pdf

Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas. Rural Crime and Community Safety makes a significant contribution to crime science and integrates a range of theories to understand patterns of crime and perceived safety in rural contexts. Based on a wealth of original research, Ceccato combines spatial methods with qualitative analysis to examine, in detail, farm and wildlife crime, youth related crimes and gendered violence in rural settings. Making the most of the expanding field of Criminology and of the growing professional inquiry into crime and crime prevention in rural areas; rural development; and the social sustainability of rural areas, this book builds a bridge by connecting Criminology and Human Geography. This book will be suitable for academics, students and practitioners in the fields of criminology, community safety, rural studies, rural development and gender studies.

Author : David Garland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191018282

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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society by David Garland Pdf

The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime. The book presents an original and in-depth analysis of contemporary crime control, revealing its underlying logics and rationalities, and identifying the social relations and cultural sensibilities that have produced this new culture of control.

Author : Marc Schuilenburg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479876594

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The Securitization of Society by Marc Schuilenburg Pdf

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role. In The Securitization of Society, Marc Schuilenburg establishes a new critical perspective for examining the dynamic nature of security and its governance. Rooted in the works of the French philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Gabriel Tarde, this book explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes that have impacted security in Western society from the 19th century to the present. By analyzing the new hybrid of public-private security, this volume provides deep insight into the processes of securitization and modern risk management for the police and judicial authorities as well as other emerging parties. Schuilenburg draws upon four case studies of increased securitization in Europe – monitoring marijuana cultivation, urban intervention teams, road transport crime, and the collective shop ban – in order to raise important questions about citizenship, social order, and the law within this expanding new paradigm. An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to criminological theory that incorporates philosophy, sociology, and political science, The Securitization of Society reveals how security is understood and enacted in urban environments today.

Author : Arrigo, Bruce,Sellers, Brian
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529205268

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The Pre-Crime Society by Arrigo, Bruce,Sellers, Brian Pdf

We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.

Author : Dina Siegel,Henk van de Bunt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461432111

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Traditional Organized Crime in the Modern World by Dina Siegel,Henk van de Bunt Pdf

Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper—even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From traditional gangland enterprises such as narcotics, gambling, and prostitution, the world’s mafias have moved into new sources of illegal income, including high-tech arms smuggling, money laundering, and identity fraud. Traditional Crime in the Modern World tracks these organizations—the Italian and Mexican mafias, Columbian drug cartels, Chinese triads, and others—across five continents as they adapt to change, and assesses their prospects in the short and long term. World events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 9/11 terror attacks are discussed in the context of contributing to emerging markets for illicit goods and services, and to evolving partnerships among criminal entities. This timely volume: • Provides a comprehensive overview of how mafia-like structures function today. • Analyzes in depth national crime situations with global implications. • Examines the migration of organized crime groups and their operations in their new countries. • Gauges the influence of digital and other technologies on organized crime. • Where applicable, notes the links between organized crime and national political institutions. • Describes the impact of the global financial crisis on crime organizations. Concise, compelling, and deeply documented, Traditional Crime in the Modern World is an eye-opening resource for researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and trafficking, as well as related topics of Demography, Political Science, and International Relations.

Author : Simon Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136237515

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Crime, Community and Morality by Simon Green Pdf

Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis. ‘Where have our values gone?’ our newspapers scream at us. ‘Benefit scroungers’, ‘greedy bankers’, ‘intrusive journalists’, ‘have-a-go rioters’, political scandals and criminals of all shapes and sizes are continually cited as evidence that we live in a modern-day Gomorrah. Criminologists have studied this in several ways, including: media representations of crime, mass incarceration, hooliganism and the exercise of power and control through communities. What criminologists have not studied is the place of morality in shaping public debate about understanding crime and how this then shapes crime control strategies. Rather than dismiss statements about community breakdown, ‘broken society’ and irresponsibility as ideological, self-justificatory rhetoric, what happens when we take these claims seriously? What do they tell us about the causes of crime? How do they shape the crime control agenda? How else might we begin to understand and explain the relationship between crime and society? Navigating between criminological concerns about control and governance and social theories about culture and identity, this book explores what is meant by crime, community and morality and puts this meaning to the test. Discussion of a new theory of rule-breaking, combined with an analysis of how our justice system is becoming maladapted, makes this essential reading for criminologists around the globe, as well as those general readers interested in the causes of crime.