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UNINA9910299861003321 |
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Autore |
Amatrudo Anthony |
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Titolo |
Criminal Actions and Social Situations : Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality / / by Anthony Amatrudo |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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1 online resource (X, 196 p.) |
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Crime - Sociological aspects |
Criminology |
Criminal behavior |
Critical criminology |
Law and the social sciences |
Crime and Society |
Criminology Theory |
Criminal Behavior |
Critical Criminology |
Socio-Legal Studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Section 1. Technical and Analytical Considerations -- Chapter 2. The Central Problem of Collective Action -- Chapter 3. Collective Actions and Goals -- Section 2. Legal Considerations -- Chapter 3. Mobs, Masses and Treating People as Groups -- Chapter 4. Criminal Groups and Their Enterprise in UK Criminal Law and in International Law -- Section 3. Reality and Sociology -- Chapter 5. Real-life Cases: War Criminal Prosecutions and the Treatment of Membership of Illegal Organisations -- Chapter 6. The Gang in Criminological Literature -- Chapter 7. Drawing the Strands Together. |
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This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and |
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responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention and action both structure membership and action. Amatrudo also assesses the often-overlooked fleeting nature of many groups and the overstated continuity of group membership, and this book has radical implications for the way we describe criminal groupings e.g. “criminal” groups with their loose bonds but tight sense of intentionality from criminogenic groups with their tight bonds and loose sense of intentionality. A key issue investigated here is the implications involved for people incarcerated on joint criminal enterprise charges and gang membership-related charges; and this timely topic will be of great interest to academics and students of Criminology, Law, Sociology and a variety ofother Social Sciences. The volume will also be useful for lawyers, social workers, community workers and others involved in the criminal justice system. |
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UNINA9910961374803321 |
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Autore |
Ransford H Chris |
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Titolo |
In Search of Ultimate Reality : Inside the Cosmologist’s Abyss / / H Chris Ransford |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (159 pages) |
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Cosmologist |
Kosmologie |
Philosophie |
Philosophy |
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Is there such a thing as a fundamental reality, something which was around before our universe came into existence and which will still |
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remain when all matter, time, and space itself ultimately disappear? Something fundamental which, in turn, can make space and time and matter arise from seemingly nothing? Under most cosmological and physical models, the last known remnants of reality are the disembodied laws of mathematics—beyond which it is extremely difficult to probe further. Using contemporary physics, narrated at popular science level, Chris Ransford shows why full nothingness—a nothingness within which even the disembodied laws of mathematics would not exist—cannot possibly exist, and what most likely underpins and enables reality. This leads the author to a few thoughts as to how such knowledge may be verified, and then deployed to achieve a better alignment with reality. |
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