Research Catalog

Title

Crime and morality : the significance of criminal justice in post-modern culture / by Hans Boutellier.

Author

Boutellier, Hans

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000.

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Description

xii, 181 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This text combines insights from criminology, sociology and moral philosophy. It describes the arousal of attention for victims and the development of crime prevention. More specifically, it analyzes child sexual abuse and prostitution.

Uniform Title

Solidariteit en slachtofferschap. English

Alternative Title

Solidariteit en slachtofferschap.

Subject

• Victims of crimes
• Crime Victims
• Crime

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-181).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Michael Tonry -- 1. Morality, Criminal Justice and Criminal Events -- Criminality and the Norm -- Morality and Culture -- Morality and Post-Modernism -- Criminal Law and Morality -- Solidarity and Victimhood -- 2. Morality and Criminal Justice Policy -- The Discovery of Petty Crime -- Social Control and Opportunity -- Normative Shift -- Comments -- Social Inequality and Crime -- The Van Dijk-Jongman Controversy -- 3. Morality and Victims -- Crime as a Moral Problem -- The Victimological Twist -- The Rediscovery of the Victim -- Victimology -- Victim Surveys -- Victimless Crime -- Victim Support -- The Victimalization Process -- 4. Victimalization of the Sexuality Abused Child -- The Ambivalence -- The "Discovery" -- Sexualization -- The Sexual Revolution -- Feminism -- Individualization of the Child -- From Fantasy to Reality -- 5. The De-victimalization of the Prostitute -- From Regulation to Brothel Prohibition -- Hygienism -- Feminism -- The Brothel Prohibition -- A Psychological Problem -- A Sexual Variation -- The Second Feminist Wave -- The Rediscovery of the Victim -- An Ordinary Occupation -- 6. Solidarity or Virtuousness; Rorty versus MacIntyre -- MacIntyre's Virtuous Community -- Rorty's Ironic Solidarity -- The Moral Subject -- MacIntyre's Narrative Subject -- Rorty's Split Subject -- MacIntyre versus Rorty -- Liberalism and Solidarity -- 7. Criminality and Liberalism: Some Closing Comments -- The Issue of Crime -- Criminology -- Criminal Justice Policy -- Normative Liberalism -- The Normative State -- Normative Upbringing.

ISBN

0792360915 (HB : acid free paper)

LCCN

^^^99058451^

OCLC

• 42842484
• SCSB-10215673

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library