Working Out of Crime

ISBN-13: 9781138378551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 472 str.

DAVID DOWNES

Opis

The material gathered in this volume spans David Downes's career starting with his early and original contributions to the comparative study of anomie and subcultural theory and to social policy on education and employment. His research on gambling and the state of criminological theory is represented as is his research on the politics of crime control, as well as his later work on criminal justice and penal policy, which broke new ground in detailed, cross-national, comparative analysis, particularly in relation to England and the Netherlands.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Published writings; The teen canteen: in at the end; Educating for uncertainty (with Fred Flower); Delinquent subcultures in Stepney and Poplar: informal observation; Summary and conclusions; Gambling as a sociological problem; Gambling as a social problem (with B.P. Davies, M.E. David and P. Stone); Promise and performance in British criminology; Praxis makes perfect: a critique of critical criminology (with Paul Rock); Abolition: possibilities and pitfalls; Law and order: theft of an issue; Theories of decarceration: problems of accounting for sentencing trends in the Netherlands; The depth of imprisonment: an exploratory study of the Netherlands and England; Employment schemes for offenders; Mitigating the social effects of unemployment; Dumping the 'hostages to fortune'? The politics of law and order in post-war Britain (with Rod Morgan); The macho penal economy: mass incarceration in the United States - a European perspective; Toughing it out: from Labour opposition to Labour government; Visions of penal control in the Netherlands; Name index.

O autorze

David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.