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Paperback Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s Book

ISBN: 0802077021

ISBN13: 9780802077028

Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s

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In the 1980s in Britain a new school of critical criminology arose to challenge the political and philosophical idealism that characterized its critical predecessors, and to offer an alternative to the crime control policies of the 'New Right.' Arguing that by overemphasizing the crimes of the powerful, much of critical criminology had virtually ignored the impact of street crime on its victims, a 'left realism' emerged to reassert the centrality...

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