Criminal Actions and Social Situations Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality /

• Main Author: Amatrudo, Anthony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Crime-Sociological aspects.; Criminology.; Criminal behavior.; Critical criminology.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Crime and Society.; Criminological Theory.; Criminal Behavior.; Critical Criminology.; Criminal Justice.

This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical - and problematic - issues of how intentio...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1. Technical and Analytical Considerations
• Chapter 2. The Central Problem of Collective Action
• Chapter 3. Collective Actions and Goals
• Section 2. Legal Considerations
• Chapter 3. Mobs, Masses and Treating People as Groups
• Chapter 4. Criminal Groups and Their Enterprise in UK Criminal Law and in International Law
• Section 3. Reality and Sociology
• Chapter 5. Real-life Cases: War Criminal Prosecutions and the Treatment of Membership of Illegal Organisations
• Chapter 6. The Gang in Criminological Literature
• Chapter 7. Drawing the Strands Together.