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Travels of the Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion
This collection of essays seeks a constructive comparative view of the tendencies of crime and punishment to converge and diverge.
Author(s) | Edited by Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo, Richard Sparks. |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 234 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 3 Feb 2011 |
Availability | Available |
This collection of essays seeks a constructive comparative view of the tendencies of crime and punishment to converge and diverge.
1. Introduction. Criminal Questions: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo and Richard Sparks Part I. Cultural Embeddedness of Punishment 2. Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment David Garland 3. Neoliberalism
Dario Melossi is a Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. Maximo Sozzo, Professor of Sociology and Criminology in the Faculty of Social and Juridical Sciences at the National University of Litoral. Richard Sparks is