NCJ Number
141605
Journal
Crime, Law and Social Change Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Dated: (March 1993) Pages: complete issue
Date Published
1993
Length
120 pages
Annotation
Five articles use empirical data to examine organized crime and business crime-enterprise in the Netherlands, the influence of economic cycles on criminal justice policy in the United States, social control and the censures of sex, intermediate sanctions, and determinants of public support for the drug war in Belize.
Abstract
The opening article describes organized fraud in the Netherlands based on empirical research. The profile of business crime-enterprises reveals a mobile world of unremitting fraudsters who operate in a variety of organizations and fraudulent schemes. The second article explores the relationship between long cycles of capitalist development and the historical formation of criminal justice policy in the United States. The article concludes that during periods of economic deterioration, unemployment and economic inequality increase substantially, and social unrest and crime become critical problems. During these periods, old forms of social control are typically replaced with newer methods of control. The third article illustrates how social censures may be used as part of a critique of societies that are "deeply entrenched in the ideological censure of women, femininity, and subversive masculinities." Remaining articles document the failure of Florida's home detention program to reduce the rate of imprisonment and the weak support of the public in Belize City for the militarization of the drug war in Belize. Article notes and references