David Downes

Working Out of Crime

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781138378551
• ISBN-10: 1138378550
• Artikelnr.: 69896798

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.