Limited Responsibilities: Social Movements and Criminal Justice (Sociology of Law and Crime)
By Tamar Pitch.
Description
Limited Responsibilities explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry. Using the key concept of `responsibility', Tamar Pitch critiques the classical theories of Anglo-American and Italian criminologies, examining the allocation of responsibilities to individuals and society. Looking at the shifting political relationship between criminal justice and the welfare system, Pitch considers the problems which arise in our understandings of responsibi...
ISBN(s)
041508654X, 9780415086547
