1st Edition

Crime and Society

Edited By Donna Youngs Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity, crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. This book reviews some of the... Read more

Introduction: Crime and society  1. Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto  2. Pride and prejudice: the context of reception for Muslims in the United States  3. Does Islam deter crime in a secular Islamic country? The case of Turkey  4. Is there a natural rate of crime in India?  5. Use of drugs and criminal behaviour among female adolescent prostitutes in Lagos metropolis, Nigeria  6. A reason for reasonable doubt in social justice: the weight of poverty, race and gender in lopsided homicide case clearances outcomes  7. A consideration of the social impact of cybercrime: examples from hacking, piracy, and child abuse material online  8. The impacts of organised crime in the EU: some preliminary thoughts on measurement difficulties  9. Homelessness among formerly incarcerated African American men: contributors and consequences  10. An inside look at Israeli police critical incident first responders  11. Tackling sexual violence at UK universities: a case study

Biography

Donna Youngs is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she directs the doctoral program in Investigative Psychology. She has published on many aspects of criminality and criminal psychology. Her particular interests are in criminals’ personal narratives and their experiences of crime.