Crime and inequality / Chris Grover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grover, Chris, 1967-

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Equality before the law.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Crime--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Uffculme ; Portland Or. : Willan Pub., ©2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Britain is a deeply unequal society. Relationships between crime and inequality are often lost to common sense and individualised explanations of crime. Crime and Inequality seeks to redress this by examining relationships between crime and economic inequality, and the ways in which these are also inflected by social inequalities. The analysis is structured by the premise that the state often attempts to manage offending and anti-social behaviour through social policies, most notably those related to money and housing, that are rarely acknowledged, or analysed, as having such a role.

Crime and Inequality examines the evidential basis of claims of links between inequality and crime, and the theoretical explanations of why we might expect there to be such relationships. It then goes on to examine relationships between crime, inequality and social policies for various social groups before examining the relationships between financial penalties and social security policy.

The aim of Crime and Inequality is to develop the understanding of students of criminology in relation to the socio-economic and social policy contexts of offending and anti-social behaviour and state reactions to it, and to develop the understanding of students of social policy with regard to the concerns that help shape social policies in Britain and the tensions that frame them. It will be essential reading for anybody seeking an understanding of one of the key social and policy issues in contemporary Britain.

Contents:

Crime, inequality and social policy

Crime and equality

Young men

Parenting and anti-social behaviour

Women, crime and inequality

Crime, inequality and ethnicity

Street homelessness and crime

Financial penalties: punishing poor people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781315880747

1315880741

Publisher Number:

99984039623

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.