The new European criminology : crime and social order in Europe / / edited by Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South and Ian Taylor

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (539 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.94
• Soggetto topico: Crime - Europe; Criminology - Europe; Criminal justice, Administration of - Europe
• Altri autori: RuggieroVincenzo SouthNigel TaylorIan R
• Note generali: Chiefly papers presented at a conference held in Manchester, England on Sept. 7-10, 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Towards a European criminological community; European prospects; Crime, market-liberalism and the European idea; Conflicts and convergences in criminology: bringing politics and economy back in; Remarks on social control, state sovereignty and citizenship in the New Europe; From inclusive to exclusive society: nightmares in the European dream; Penality and criminal justice; A crisis of youth or of juridical response?; Prison: between the law and social action; Between civility and state ; The 'sensitive perimeter' of the prison: a key to understanding the durability of the penal institution~The big thieves hang the small ones~: equality before the criminal law in an unequal society; Prison and alternatives to prison in Spain; Another angle on European harmonisation: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; Victims' perceptions of police services in East and West Europe; Criminal business; Some observations on illegal markets; Drugs, war and crime in the post-Soviet Balkans; The market and crime in Russia; Russian organised crime: moving beyond ideology ; The pentiti's contribution to the conceptualization of the Mafia phenomenon The international and the local; Glocal organised crime: context and pretext; Crime and the sense of one's place: globalization, restructuring and insecurity in an English town; The moral crusade on violence in Sweden: moral panic, or material for small-talk indignation?; Youth deviance and social exclusion in Greece; Criminality or criminalization of migrants in Greece? An attempt at synthesis; Crime and the welfare state: the case of the United Kingdom and Sweden ; Running risks and managing dangers: street robbery as a matter of trust Horizons; 'Ideology with human victims': the institution of 'crime and punishment' between social control and social exclusion: historical and theoretical issues; The delinquent as a fading category of knowledge; Corporate and state crimes against the environment: foundations for a green perspective in European criminology; War and crime in the former Yugoslavia; Towards a criminology of war in Europe; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The New European Criminology gathers together leading criminologists from all over Europe to consider crime and responses to crime within and across national borders. For the first time it allows students to experience the most exciting work in European criminology and to compare approaches to crime in different parts of Europe. The five sections of the book look at: * the effects of European harmonisation on crime * criminal justice, law enforcement and penal reform * organised crime, from the Mafia in Italy to drug running in the Balkans * local crime in interna
• Titolo autorizzato: The new European criminology
• ISBN: 1-134-71480-7; 1-134-71481-5; 1-280-33089-9; 0-203-03048-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172242303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II