Geometries of Crime How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice
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Geometries of Crime
Avi Brisman
Geometries of Crime How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
Avi Brisman School of Justice Studies College of Justice and Safety Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, Kentucky, USA
Geometries of Crime ISBN 978-1-137-54619-7 ISBN 978-1-137-54620-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54620-3
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For Joshua El-Bey and the youth of Red Hook
Acknowledgments
In March 2008, I presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society entitled “The Thick Fine Print of Clifford Geertz: A ‘Microscopic’ Examination of Some of the Citations and Footnotes in The Interpretation of Cultures.” The paper argued that one could glean something of the originality of Clifford Geertz’s theoretical orientation and narrative strategy by examining his citations and footnotes in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. As a springboard for this discussion, I noted some of the literature in law and other academic disciplines ruminating on the use of footnotes. It should come as no surprise that footnotes have hardly been lauded for their ability to express and communicate ideas. Indeed, John Barrymore, the American actor of stage and screen, once observed that reading footnotes is akin to “having to run downstairs to answer the doorbell during the first night of the honeymoon.” Although I have not conducted similar research on the style and content of Acknowledgments sections of Geertz’s scholarship (or any other scholar’s, for that matter), I would hazard a gues
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