Crime & modernity : continuities in left realist criminology / John Lea.

In this book, John Lea develops a broad historical and sociological overview relating the rise and fall of effective crime control to different types of social structures. It traces the process of modernisation and industrialisation from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries which establishe...

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Main Author: Lea, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, Eng. ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Practical Criminality
  • 2. Modernisation and Crime Control
  • 3. Frontiers of Criminalisation
  • 4. Contradictions of Modernisation
  • 5. Disintegrating Society
  • 6. Varieties of Normalisation
  • 7. Decomposition of Crime Control.