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Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk, and Late Modernity (Crime & Justice) by Gordon Hughes is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk, and Late Modernity (Crime & Justice) about?
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention in particular and social control more generally. It moves beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offers an original re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of exciting new thinking in social theory.
Who reads Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk, and Late Modernity (Crime & Justice)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gordon Hughes
- Publisher
- Open University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780335199419
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- True Crime, Law, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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