TY - BOOK
T1 - Defining Crime: A critique of the concept and its implication
AU - Lynch, Michael
AU - Stretesky, Paul
AU - Long, Michael
PY - 2015/7/30
Y1 - 2015/7/30
N2 - Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity. Lynch, Stretesky, and Long argue that a scientific definition of crime must be detached from criminal law and the variation the political construction imposes. The authors propose an alternative definition of crime, explore its limitations, and how it can reshape criminological research.
AB - Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity. Lynch, Stretesky, and Long argue that a scientific definition of crime must be detached from criminal law and the variation the political construction imposes. The authors propose an alternative definition of crime, explore its limitations, and how it can reshape criminological research.
UR - https://librarysearch.northumbria.ac.uk:443/northumbria:default_scope:44UON_ALMA2120784710003181
M3 - Book
SN - 9781137479358
BT - Defining Crime: A critique of the concept and its implication
PB - Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
