{"product_id":"discovery-of-hidden-crime-self-report-delinquency-surveys-in-criminal-policy-context-9780199639199","title":"Discovery of Hidden Crime: Self-Report Delinquency Surveys in Criminal Policy Context","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janne Kivivuori\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criminology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscovery of Hidden Crime\u003c\/em\u003e presents a history of the self-report crime survey as a method of criminological inquiry, describing how it was born within a distinct moral framework by pioneers out to show that crime was very prevalent and, therefore, normal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis books recounts how, during the 1930s and 1940s, a handful of US criminologists discovered the method of the self-report delinquency survey - a method used to ask people directly about their crimes. Previously, criminologists had to rely on official statistics produced by the police and other control authorities; their studies were therefore constrained by the 'official control barrier', which perpetuated the notion that crime was linked to the lowest social strata and\/or to psychological abnormality. By confronting the domination of psychiatrists and psychologists in the study of crime, criminologists began to challenge the punitive attitudes of society; thus, exposing the so-called white collar offenders and alerting people to see crime as something that could also be found among the middle and upper classes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpounding both the history of that discovery and its implications for criminological work, past and present, this book offers a fascinating perspective on how criminology has developed, and how it continues to advance amid the twin pressures of facts and policy goals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891224952983,"sku":"9780199639199","price":11136.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199639199.webp?v=1781182750","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/discovery-of-hidden-crime-self-report-delinquency-surveys-in-criminal-policy-context-9780199639199","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}