Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s

by John Lowman and Brian D. MacLean

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077021
• ISBN13: 9780802077028
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher