Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)

Name: Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415858120
Price: 423.0 NZD
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By John Braithwaite

Series: Routledge Revivals

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Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy offers a thorough examination of how social class and residential segregation relate to crime. John Braithwaite evaluates whether redistributive policies in capitalist societies influence crime rates, analysing key sociological theories from Engels to Shaw and McKay. The book also addresses white collar crime and the role of law enforcement in maintaining class interests.
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Ideal for students and scholars of criminology, sociology, public policy, and social inequality.

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First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime. It presents its own findings on these matters, exploring two major questions.

First, do policies designed to redistribute wealth and power within capitalist societies have effects upon crime? Second, do policies created to overcome the residential segregation of social classes have effects on crime?

The book provides a brilliantly comprehensive and systematic review of the empirical evidence to support or refute the classic theories of Engels, Bonger, Merton, Cloward and Ohlin, Cohen, Miller, Shaw and McKay, amongst many others. Braithwaite confronts these theories with evidence of the extent and nature of white-collar crime, and a consideration of the way law enhancement and law enforcement might serve class interest.