{"product_id":"the-problem-of-crime","title":"John Muncie: The Problem of Crime [1996] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Problem of Crime\u003c\/b\u003e adopts a series of vantage points to assess the nature, meaning and extent of crime in society. The areas covered include: the measurement of crime; media and fictional representations of crime; social histories of crime and punishment; crime in the inner cities; crime in the home; corporate crime; and crimes of the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is designed to reveal the diversity and ubiquity of crime, and the problematic nature of the concept itself. It broadens popular understandings of the crime problem by encouraging a critical reflection on the nature of social orders which appear to generate a whole series of social problems for their citizens, but which select only a few to be sites of criminal sanction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative teaching text is a course text for The Open University course D315\u003ci\u003e Crime, Order and Social Control\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muncie, John \u0026 Mclaughlin, Eugene","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47943604109651,"sku":"XV80761950059","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-problem-of-crime","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}