conception that the gravity of crimes is rooted in "desert," understood to depend particularly on the offender's state of mind and to a lesser extent on the harm done or threatened to society. Drawing on Dante's Inferno, the essay shows how the gravity of crimes is socially constructed. ...
A historical analysis of victim responses to crime shows that the victim experience to crime is socially constructed. In this regard, this policy act that excludes offenders from the victim healing process is consistent with a traditional approach to justice, which understands the offender to have ...
In sociological terms, crime is a social concept as it does not exist as an autonomous entity, but it is socially constructed by people. It can be analysed that sociological explanations of crime attribute deviance to various aspects of the social environment. For example, crime is strongly ...
Crime is often described as socially constructed, which influences our understanding of who commits a crime. Firstly, labelling theorists argue that crime is a social construction based on the powerful’s reaction to certain behaviour, those who are deviant are people that have been labelled as suc...
The intention here is to highlight the socially constructed nature of 'childhood' through the production and reproduction of knowledge from discourse. By utilizing critical discourse analysis of media discourses, that can be defined as d... H Dunbabin 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 Theorising Men's Vio...
Opinion. Discusses the consensus and controversy over the research into genetics and crime. Agreement between researchers and critics on how criminal behavior is defined and socially constructed; Reaction of researchers to the view that there are genes for crime; Issues which researchers and their crit...
Nancy Tucker’s The First Day of Spring is the compelling, forcefully written story of a child murderer. The shock of the first sentence –“I killed a little boy today” – takes us with great immediacy into the mind and grim life of Chrissie. Eight years old, Chrissie is socially ostra...
The unequal spatial distribution of crime makes it an ideal candidate for analysis within this sociological framework crime is universal, yet spatially concentrated; targets everyone, yet not everyone equally; is socially constructed, yet has a very real physical reality to it. The article addresses ...
all crimes are difficult to find and detect, a characteristic that is not distinctive for any type of crime. For socially constructed crimes, we can only stick to the legal facts based on legal process and evidence since absolute objective facts are almost impossible to find, if they even exi...
It is also possible to compute rates for the three main categories of Sellin–Wolfgang index crimes—injury, theft, and damage. In this way, subindices can be constructed in order to compare severity scores both across and within offense types. Regardless of which rates are utilized, the use...