These essays examine how and why inequality affects the patterning of crime and criminal justice. They evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates

First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime,

This book examines key relationships between material circumstances and crime, and analyzes the areas of social policy – in particular social security and lab

This book is intended to provide critical readings for criminology courses. The authors all see crime as both a social and a political process. That is, what co

Crime, Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach. In this book Eileen Leonard