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Criminology and literature is an interdisciplinary field con-necting the social scientific study of crime, criminals, criminal law, and criminal justice with humankind’s artistic, imaginative expression in written word.
17 Ιαν 2014 · To date, the most widely employed definition of crime in the criminological literature is a behavior that violates the criminal law. When we say that this definition of crime is widely shared, what we mean is that most criminologists accept that crime is a violation
As part of our analysis of the concept of crime, we suggest that microlevel theories are inconsistent with the legal definition of crime and that there is, therefore, particu-lar reason to be concerned with using the legal definition of crime to test individual- level theories of crime.
Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity.
This chapter, which introduces some of the complex interrelationships surrounding the various ways that crime is constructed and objectified, shows that, in practice and in the literature, there is much disagreement over the exact definition of a crime.
2 Φεβ 2022 · Crime is essentially a socially constructed signifier that refers to the violation of the structured-order-of-things of a society. Thus, crime is a resistance to power structures. This makes the relationship between crime and power, as either primarily coerced or legitimate, particularly prescient.
1 Νοε 2014 · Attention then turns to the central questions to be answered by theories of crime and punishment: what a crime is, what it means to be responsible for a crime, why it is necessary to respond to crime, who may respond to crime, how to respond to crime.
