Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice

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This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The...

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Main Author: Brisman, Avi (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2016
In:Year: 2016
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Keywords:
Social Sciences
Criminal Law
Critical Criminology
Crime > Sociological aspects
Juvenile delinquents
Criminology
Juvenile Delinquency
Jugendkriminalität > Soziale Wahrnehmung > Jugendgerichtsbarkeit
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Printed edition: 9781137546197
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Summary:This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes crime, identifying those affected by it, and what is deemed adequate or appropriate punishment. In so doing, it offers thick description of young peoples' conceptions of and experiences with crime, delinquency, justice and law, and uses this description to interrogate the role of the state in influencing - indeed, shaping - these perceptions
Chapter 1. The Corners of Crime: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pyramids, Squares and Prisms: Severity of Harm, Public Awareness and Perceptions of Severity of Harm, Power Relations and Society's Response -- Chapter 3. Red Hook, The RHCJC and Youth Courts -- Chapter 4. Red Hook Youth Court Hearings and Youth Perceptions of Criminal Severity, Justice, Law, Punishment and Remorse -- Chapter 5. Beyond Shape: An Open Conclusion
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (XIII, 249 p. 13 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:9781137546203
DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-54620-3