Of vice and men: technological fetishism, unintended consequences and the regulation of human desire

Most crime science and criminology ontologizes crime, treating it as a self-evident category, existing independently from human observation. Fetishizing scientific method, criminological research often employs crime as a dependent variable against one or more independent variables, reporting statist...

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Authors: Oleson, James C. 1968- (Author) ; Kramer, Ronald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 15, Pages: 52-69
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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