Violence as Unresponsiveness: Toward a New Conception Of Crime

• NCJ Number: 116895
• Journal: Justice Quarterly Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1988) Pages: 539-563
• Author(s): H E Pepinsky
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 25 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A theory of crime and violence as 'unresponsiveness' was inferred by translating concepts of American criminology into Norwegian.

Abstract

According to this theory, punishment of offenders is a product of criminality that the punishers share. Reducing crime and violence entails decentralizing and democratizing government. The practice of criminology -- testing propositions about crime and violence -- becomes problematic. (Publisher abstract)