A Suitable Amount of Crime

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    Christie is not a native English speaker, so his writing is a little awkward at times. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Tjautjas rated it really liked it Dec 25, Handbook of the Sociology of the Military Giuseppe Caforio. Thus, it cannot be accurately measured, nor can different measurements of crime be meaningfully compared.

    Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore in endless supply.

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    It should not be forgotten that there are alternatives, both in the definition of crime, and in responses to it. A Suitable Amount of Crime looks at the great variations between countries over what are considered 'unwanted acts', how many are constructed as criminal and how many are punished. It explains the differences between eastern and western Europe, between the USA and the rest of the world.

    The author laments the size of prison populations in countries with large penal sectors, and asks whether the international community has a moral obligation to 'shame' states that are punitive in the extreme. Read more Read less. Buy and read on Free Kindle Apps.

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    Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. This was a supplemental textbook for my sociology of criminology class. It is written in a very different style than most of my course materials, but once you get used to the narrative flow, it is a very easy, quick read grounded in social constructionist point of view. A critical explanation of crime as a phenomenon that does not exist unless the dominant majority define an act as criminal.

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    Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore in endless supply. It should not be forgotten that there are alternatives, Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. It should not be forgotten that there are alternatives, both in the definition of crime, and in responses to it.

    A Suitable Amount of Crime looks at the great variations between countries over what are considered 'unwanted acts', how many are constructed as criminal and how many are punished. It explains the differences between eastern and western Europe, between the USA and the rest of the world. The author laments the size of prison populations in countries with large penal sectors, and asks whether the international community has a moral obligation to 'shame' states that are punitive in the extreme.

    The book is written in an engaging and easily accessible style that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding contemporary problems of crime and punishment. Paperback , pages. Published March 11th by Routledge first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Suitable Amount of Crime , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about A Suitable Amount of Crime.

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    Apr 16, Sarah Jane rated it liked it Shelves: I had to do a critical analysis of this work from my Criminology course this quarter. I was not particularly excited about reading this book, but I ended up getting a lot out of it.

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    Christie is not a native English speaker, so his writing is a little awkward at times. I ended up adjusting to his word choice and sentence structure after a couple of chapters though. Christie approaches the concept of "crime" from an interesting point of view: He claims, instead, that on I had to do a critical analysis of this work from my Criminology course this quarter. He claims, instead, that only acts exist. Crime has no true or constant definition.

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    Thus, it cannot be accurately measured, nor can different measurements of crime be meaningfully compared. In the end, Christie insists that peacemaking must be given at least as much emphasis as the control of acts through punishment. As a global community, we must all work toward this end.

    He explains how the failure to do so will impact us all negatively.

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    I didn't expect to be interested in this piece of work, but I was ultimately very impressed. It's a short read, certainly worth picking up.

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