Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
by
Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie Lucero, Gregory J. Swedberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Crime exists in every society, revealing not only the way in which societies function but also exposing the standards that society holds about what is harmful and punishable. Criminalizing individuals and actions is not the exclusive domain of the state; it emerges from the collective consciousness—the...