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Crime and Muslim Britain : Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis

ISBN: 9781845118334 | 1845118332
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Pub. Date: 10/13/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis' perceptions of crime and control are a combination of the formal and informal, or British and 'traditional' Pakistani, that are no longer separable in the diasporic context. She also examines local and national state policies that are geared to preventing crime and shows how crime comes to be under... MORE

* Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Taboo of Criminological Research amongst Minority Ethnic Groups * Theoretical and Methodological Solutions to the ‘Race and Crime’ Taboo * Bradford as a case study * Criminological Discourses: Labelling * Aetiologies of crime * Criminological Discourses: Gender and Deviance * Criminological discourses: informal social control * Criminological discourses: formal social control * The politics of criminology: from biraderi to community * Bibliography * Glossary * Index *

Marta Bolognani completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Leeds. She is now Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan.



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