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Crime as Stress

  • Lewis D
  • Riger S
Springer US, (1986), 185-200
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2236-6_11
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Abstract

At the beginning of their book Constructing Social Problemsm, Spector and Kitsuse (1977) ask a question that they never answer: “What is it that makes crime a social problem?” Is it the absolute number of crimes? Is it the types of crimes committed? Is it the increase in the rate of some crimes or of crime in general? Does crime become a social problem when “the streets are no longer safe at night?”

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Lewis, D. A., & Riger, S. (1986). Crime as Stress. In Redefining Social Problems (pp. 185–200). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2236-6_11

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