Criminal : the truth about why people do bad things
Gash, Tom2017
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The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history - in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is either a selfish choice, an aberration; or a forced choice, the product of social factors. These two stories continue to dominate both our views of and responses to crime. And, says Tom Gash, they are completely wrong. In seeking to dispel the myths that surround and inform our views of crime, this book argues that our obsession with 'big arguments' about crime's causes can lead us to mistake individual cases as proof of universal rules.
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Author:
Gash, Tom, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2017.
Collation:
x, 336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241960431 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364
LC class:
HV6018
Language:
English
BRN:
1858321
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