Limited Responsibilities: Social Movements and Criminal Justice (Sociology of Law and Crime) - Hardcover

Pitch, Tamar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415086531 ISBN 13: 9780415086530

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

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 responsibility, particularly in relation to the young and the mentally disabled. She also documents the centrality of responsiblity as an issue in women's struggles for legislation on sexual violence, as a paradigm of the politicisation of notions of crime, victimization and criminal responsibility.
Limited Responsiblities will be of interest to lecturers, students and professionals in criminology, social policy and women's studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Tamar Pitch is a Feminist Criminologist in Rome.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415086531
• ISBN 13: 9780415086530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240