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Cultures of crime and violence : the Australian experience / edited by Judith Bessant, Kerry Carrington and Sandy Cook.

Title
Cultures of crime and violence : the Australian experience / edited by Judith Bessant, Kerry Carrington and Sandy Cook.
Publication
Bundoora, Vic., Australia : La Trobe University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Bessant, Judith.
  • Carrington, Kerry.
  • Cook, Sandy.
Description
221 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Crime > Australia
  • Violence > Australia
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > Australia
Note
  • "A special edition of the Journal of Australian studies."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Police Culture / Steve James and Ian Warren -- Pathologies of School Violence: A Reconsideration / Roger Slee -- Cultures of Institutional Violence: Deaths in Juvenile Detention / Christine Howlett -- Mask of Benevolence: Cultures of Violence and People with Disabilities / Lesley Chenoweth -- Violence, the Media and the Making of Policy: the Closure of Richmond Secondary School / Judith Bessant -- States of Siege in the Far West / Barry Morris -- Face of the Criminal is Aboriginal / Howard Sercombe -- Cultures of Crime and Violence: An Artist's Perspective / William Kelly -- Young Women, Prostitution and the Culture of Structural Exploitation / Linda Hancock -- Plaguing of a Faggot, the Leperising of a Whore: Criminally Cultured AIDS bodies, and 'Carrier Laws' / Raymond Donovan -- Prison Culture, Violence and Sexuality / Andrew Johnston -- Judicial Bias or Legal Bias? Battery, Women and the Law / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Masculine Scenarios of Violence: The Case of Homicide / Ken Polk -- On Cultures of Violence: The Nightwatchman State and Modernity / Rob Watts -- Criminalising Street Life / Rob White -- Social Theoretical Reflections on Australia as a Culture of Violence / Philip Cassell -- 'Free' Labour Market, Unemployment and Crime / Adam Jamrozik -- Cultures of Institutional Corruption and the Natural Environment / Janis Birkeland.
ISBN
1863244174
LCCN
^^^96132232^
OCLC
  • 32977432
  • SCSB-13194280
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library