The Growth of Crime: The International Experience / Leon Radzinowicz
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TextPublication details: England: Penguin Books, 1977ISBN: - 0140221565 (pbk)
- 364 R1199
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PART I
World Currents of Crime
I THE RELENTLESS UPSURGE IN CRIME
New levels of recorded crime
The persisting thread of violence
The growing pressures
The rise of crime amongst women
The growing involvement of the young
The ethnic component
The blurring of class differences
2 THE EXPANDING DARK FIGURE OF CRIME
Getting away with murder
Offences of vast obscurity
Motives for silence
Selective impunity: the varying chances of escape
Probing the darkness
The proliferation of unrecorded crime
Some unanswered questions
PART II
Explaining Crime
3 IDEOLOGIES AND CRIME
Liberal approach
Positivist approach
Sociological approach
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