Rumgay / Campling Crime, Punishment and the Drinking Offender

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-1-349-26919-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Web PDF

Judith Rumgay explores theoretical explanations of the alcohol-crime relationship, critically analyses their empirical support in research, and develops a perspective based on 'expectancy theory', which suggests that alcohol facilitates offending less through its real pharmacological effects than through the variety of common sense beliefs about those effects which are embedded in everyday life. An empirical study of magistrates' sentencing decisions illuminates the diversity of explanations for crime based on intoxication, through the appeal to common sense beliefs about alcohol's effects.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rumgay, Judith

Campling, Jo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Ronald V. Clarke Acknowledgements Abbreviations The Intoxication Excuse: A Challenge to Reason? Theories of Intoxicated Crime Techniques of Neutralisation: The Appeal to Alcohol Responsibility and Mitigation Introduction to City Magistrates' Court Simple Schemata and Offender Characterisations Making the Most of the Intoxication Excuse The Professional Theorist: Probation Officers at Court Intoxication: Our Favourite Excuse Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JUDITH RUMGAY began her professional career as a probation officer in 1978. In 1985 she was appointed to teach on the social work course at the London School of Economics, where she specialised in probation training. She is currently a Lecturer in the Social Policy and Administration Department at London School of Economics, where her particular teaching and research interests include rehabilitation of offenders and criminological aspects of substance misuse problems.