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Travels of the criminal question : cultural embeddedness and diffusion /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Oñati international series in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847316257 1847316255 1472565371 9781472565372 1283130564 9781283130561 9786613130563 6613130567 |