Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour. In other words, each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some reasonable validity. The originality of this book consists of the `causality of contraries'' running through the chapters, whereby a tentative aetiology identified in one context finds its complete overturning in anther. The author regards the `causality of contraries'' as a crucial aspect of the anti-criminological tradition to which he claims affiliation. These `essays in anti-criminology'' deal
Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. A Fordist Model of Criminal Activity ; 3. Illegal Enterprise and Occupational Barriers ; 4. Illegal Activities Without Criminal Economies ; 5. From Fordist-type Criminals to Criminality ; 6. First Intermezzo: Drugs as a Password ; 7. Service providers and Criminals ; 8. Corrupt Exchange: A Victimless Crime? ; 9. Corruption as Resentment ; 10. Crime as Sense of the State ; 11. Second Intermezzo: Daniel Defoe and Business Crime ; 12. Conclusion
