Travels of the Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion

Book Overview

The expression 'the criminal question' does not at present have much currency in English-language criminology. The term was carried across from Italian debates about the orientation of criminology, and in particular debates about what came to be called critical criminology. One definition offered early in the debate described it as 'an area constituted by actions, institutions, policies and discourses whose boundaries shift'. According to this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849460779
• ISBN13: 9781849460774
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"