INEQUALITY, INCENTIVES, CRIMINALITY, AND BLAME. (8th May 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- INEQUALITY, INCENTIVES, CRIMINALITY, AND BLAME. (8th May 2017)
- Main Title:
- INEQUALITY, INCENTIVES, CRIMINALITY, AND BLAME
- Authors:
- Lewis, Christopher
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The disadvantaged have incentives to commit crime, and to develop criminogenic dispositions, that limit the extent to which their co-citizens can blame them for breaking the law. This is true regardless of whether the causes of criminality are mainly "structural" or "cultural." We need not assume that society as a whole is unjust in order to accept this conclusion. And doing so would neither stigmatize nor otherwise disrespect the disadvantaged.
- Is Part Of:
- Legal theory. Volume 22:Number 2(2016:Jun.)
- Journal:
- Legal theory
- Issue:
- Volume 22:Number 2(2016:Jun.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 22, Issue 2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0022-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 153
- Page End:
- 180
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-08
- Subjects:
- Law -- Periodicals
340.1 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LEG ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1352325217000052 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1352-3252
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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