Power, Crime and Mystification
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Author_Steven Box
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collar
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Corporate Crime
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Crime Index Offences
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Equity Funding Scandal
Female Crime
Female Offenders
gender and justice
Government Penal Policy
Human Suffering
Illegal Opportunity Structures
Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
Masculine Mystique
Official Portrait
Official Rapists
penal policy analysis
Police Complaints Board
Police Crime
Police Force
Potential Rapists
power dynamics in law
Radical Criminology
Severe Penal Sanction
Sex Role Socialization
social control theory
sociological crime studies
street
structural inequality in criminal justice
surveys
victimization
Victimizing Behaviours
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415045728
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 1983
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Power, Crime, and Mystification is one of the classics of radical criminology -a compelling account of how power and powerlessness operate within the criminal justice system. Questioning the orthodox view that it is powerlessness that leads to serious criminal behaviour, Steven Box focuses on the serious crimes committed by those in positions of power and privilege, particularly in government agencies and multinational corporations. He also points out that some relatively powerless groups, such as women, hardly commit any serious crimes at all. He suggests that crime can be the extreme form of otherwise socially sanctioned behaviour and, in taking this approach, provides coherent answers to the questions How does a society define crime? and 'What is the difference between justice and social control?. A major implication of Steven Box's stimulating analysis is that definitions of serious crime, the criminal justice process, and government penal policies are all in need of review. So far these have been more concerned with regulating, controlling, and demoralizing relatively powerless groups than with tackling real crime.
The late Steven Box was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent.
