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Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals) book cover

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Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)

By John Braithwaite Copyright 1979
344 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime, and presents its own findings on these matters. It explores two major questions. First, do policies designed to redistribute wealth and power within capitalist societies have effects upon crime? Second, do policies created to overcome... Read more

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Part I  1. Defining the problem  2. The class-crime relationship  3. Theories of lower-class criminality  Part II  4. The class-mix hypothesis  5. Testing the class-mix hypothesis on data in the literature  6. Testing the class-mix hypothesis on self-report data  7. Testing the class-mix hypothesis on official delinquency data  8. Testing the class-mix hypothesis on inter-city comparisons  9. Class-mix: conclusions and policies  Part III  10. Rethinking the distribution of crime among classes  11. Alternative levels of analysis for determining whether inequality contributes to crime  12. Inequality: conclusions and policies;  Postscript:  The socialist critique of the reformist criminology in the book;  Appendix: Class-mix policies;  Notes;  Select bibliography;  Name Index;  Subject Index

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John Braithwaite

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