Discovery of hidden crime : self-report delinquency surveys in criminal policy context /

Discovery of hidden crime : self-report delinquency surveys in criminal policy context

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oxford University Press ()
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press ()
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Subjects:
Kryminologia
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Description:
This book presents a history of the self-report crime survey as a method of criminological inquiry, describing how it was born within a distinct moral framework by pioneers out to show that crime was very prevalent and, therefore, normal. It recounts how, during the 1930s and 1940s, a handful of U.S. criminologists discovered the method of the self-report delinquency survey — a method used to ask people directly about their crimes. Previously, criminologists had to rely on official statistics produced by the police and other control authorities; their studies were therefore constrained by the ‘official control barrier’, which perpetuated the notion that crime was linked to the lowest social strata and/or to psychological abnormality. By confronting the domination of psychiatrists and psychologists in the study of crime, criminologists began to challenge the punitive attitudes of society; thus, exposing the so-called white collar offenders and alerting people to see crime as something that could also be found among the middle and upper classes. Expounding both the history of that discovery and its implications for criminological work, past and present, this book offers a perspective on how criminology has developed, and how it continues to advance amid the twin pressures of facts and policy goals.


Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (s. 1-10) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0001
  • Key Concepts (s. 11–21) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0002
  • Contours of the Battlefield (s. 22-38) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0003
  • Discovery of Hidden Crime (s. 39-125) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0004
  • He Who is Without Sin Among You Let Him Cast the First Stone : Deployment of Hidden Crime Studies in the Nordic Area (s. 126–159) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0005
  • Concluding Discussion (s.160–176) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199639199.003.0006