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Month: June 2017

A Suitable Amount of Crime (Nils Christie)

‘Crime does not exist. Only acts exist, acts often given different meanings within various social frameworks.’ (Christie 2004: 3)  Nils Christie makes an instructive distinction between crimes and ‘deplorable acts’.  Some deplorable acts (and of course there will be disagreements

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