Author: Verl Abner TeeterPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Crime and Immorality in the United States
Author: Verl Abner TeeterState Crime and Immorality
Author: Monaghan, MarkPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447323416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the first book to examine the activities of UK and international ‘role models’ through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it defines the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name of legitimacy. It then details the ways that states do not constitute the ideal in terms of the dangers associated with the maintenance of legitimacy and state power. Anti-democratic measures, such as the invasions of other nation states, the idea that the media can both reinforce and influence the state and the problems of over-zealous policing of a state’s own populace, are covered. Using the topical example of Rupert Murdoch and the activities of his media organisation to show how powerful individuals and corporations can and do exert political influence, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of state immorality and deviance generally and state crime in particular. It will appeal to range of academics and practitioners in broader disciplines such as criminology, sociology, politics and political science.
Money Hunger
Author: Henry Alexander Wise WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Immorality of Punishment
Author: Michael J. ZimmermanPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460401093
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally repugnant, no matter how vile the behaviour that is its target. Despite the fact that it may be difficult to imagine a state functioning at all, let alone well, without having recourse to punishing those who break its laws, Zimmerman makes a timely and compelling case for the view that we must seek and put into practice alternative means of preventing crime and promoting social stability.
Money Hungry
Author: Henry A. Wise WoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9781495294938
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
An excerpt from the beginning of CHAPTER I(N.B.: This book was originally published in 1908): THE recent exposures of commercial immorality existing in high places, and the wide difference of opinion which exists concerning the degree in blameworthiness of the acts revealed, point to the conclusion that a rigidly correct attitude in business, and a clear understanding of what constitutes it, are far less prevalent in the community than is generally supposed. Large numbers of people are presumably honest in thought and in conduct, but there is no established and universally accepted code of correct business behavior—more particularly with respect to the finer shades of commercial integrity. Instead, there prevail only vague notions concerning the correctness of many acts which lie between the extremes of acknowledged theft and indubitable honesty. Recent revelations have disclosed crimes new neither in kind nor, altogether, in degree—for the same practices, although often exposed, have existed for many years in all their variety. But the general spread of commercial immorality among all classes of our people is of such comparatively recent occurrence that the writer has felt constrained to isolate and examine the causes to which it may be referred, and, if possible, to discover and point out the correctives which in time may be expected naturally to assert themselves, as well as those which society itself obviously should provide and apply. Towards loose commercial morals there has grown up a tolerance on the part of a cynically lenient public which has steadily sapped the char acters of men in positions of trust. It can hardly be denied that among men of this class, as well as among those whose responsibilities are less, the decay of probity has not only become epidemic, but is infectious as well. Those who are first affected seem easily to corrupt their associates, until loose interpretations of trust become habitual in the case not alone of individuals, but of widely extended industrial and financial circles. The recent increase in the size and number of aggregations of capital, which men of relaxed morality regard as belonging to their individual owners only in an abstract sense, has furnished to such men a ready opportunity for the gratification of those predatory instincts which are inevitably coincident with the decline of personal integrity. An examination of the prevalent forms of corruption will show that these embrace what may be termed intermediate degrees of vice, some of them approaching more closely than others to that fully developed form known to the law as larceny. While most of them escape the statutes' definition of criminality, nevertheless, in greater or less degree, all are native to that shady hinterland of crime into which the hand of the law scarcely as yet has shown sufficient cunning to reach.
State Crime and Immorality
Author: Monaghan, MarkPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447316762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the first book to examine the activities of UK and international ‘role models’ through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it defines the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name of legitimacy. It then details the ways that states do not constitute the ideal in terms of the dangers associated with the maintenance of legitimacy and state power. Anti-democratic measures, such as the invasions of other nation states, the idea that the media can both reinforce and influence the state and the problems of over-zealous policing of a state’s own populace, are covered. Using the topical example of Rupert Murdoch and the activities of his media organisation to show how powerful individuals and corporations can and do exert political influence, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of state immorality and deviance generally and state crime in particular. It will appeal to range of academics and practitioners in broader disciplines such as criminology, sociology, politics and political science.
Governance Beyond the Law
Author: Abel PolesePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030050394
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.
State Crime and Immorality
Author: Mark Peter MonaghanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781447323426
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This work examines the activities of UK and international 'role models' through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it provides a comprehensive discussion of state immorality and deviance generally and state crime in particular.
Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church
Author: Emmett McLoughlinPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787208575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The stories in this book, which was first published in 1962, centre on the actions of some priests during the 1950s, echoing stories from today’s front pages. However, former Franciscan priest and bestselling author of People’s Padre and American Culture and Catholic Schools, Emmett McLoughlin focus in Crime and Immorality in the Catholic Church is less on the priesthood, and more on the parishioners. To investigate his theory that the Catholic religion promotes criminal behavior rather than preventing it, he conducted a survey of all the prisons in the country in 1960. In every state, the percentage of Catholic inmates was greater than the state’s percentage of Catholics in the population, even using the church’s inflated figures. He then performed a similar survey of institutionalized mental patients, exploring the theory that Catholic beliefs drive people crazy, and came up with the same results. A courageous, thought-provoking book.
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