1st Edition
Limited Responsibilities Social Movements and Criminal Justice
By Tamar Pitch
Copyright 1995
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Limited Responsibilities explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry. Using the key concept of `responsibility', Tamar Pitch critiques the classical theories of Anglo-American and Italian criminologies, examining the allocation of responsibilities to... Read more
Preface to the English Edition; Preface to the Italian Edition 1.Processes and Products of Social Control: the use and abuse of a concept 2.Studying the `Criminal Question': the object of criminology and the responsibility of the criminologist 3.Radical Enquiries, Unfounded Policies 4. Rather Riders than Horses? the use of the symbolic potential of criminal justice by actors in conflict 5.The Question of Juvenile Deviance 5.Criminal Responsiblity and Mental Illness: the criminal justice system and the new psychiatry 7.From Oppression to Victimization: the debate on the Merlin law 8.From Victimization to Autonomy: women, feminism and the law on rape 9.A Politics of Sovereignty
Biography
Tamar Pitch
