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High and Low Corruption
Children, Capabilities, and Crime
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2023
Summary
High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime provides a systematic theory of corruption, and analyzes “high corruption” in terms of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime, and “low corruption” in terms of juvenile delinquency and street crime. It shows how delinquents and street criminals often suffer from arrested development of their basic human capabilities. In turn, Harry Adams argues that their maldevelopment often emerges neither merely through their own fault when they were children nor through the fault of biological caregivers who were guilty of parental child neglect. Beyond this, Adams argues that the maldevelopment of at-risk youth commonly emerges through a kind of political child neglect, when corrupt public officials fail to provide adequate protection or back-up support for their development. In these ways, the author shows how the former type of high corruption (or “suite crime”) can significantly contribute to the latter type of corruption (and street crime). By applying a set of moral, constitutional, and criminological principles from Derek Parfit, Ronald Dworkin, and Jeffrey Reiman, respectively, Adams also provides a systematic account of why and how both these types of corruption should be curbed.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66693-254-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-3255-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
336
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Low Corruption: Delinquency and Street Crime by Society’s Most Powerless Members No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 2: High Corruption: Suite Crime by Society’s Most Powerful Members No access Pages 33 - 82
Chapter 3: The Powerful Harming the Powerless No access Pages 83 - 124
Chapter 4: Improved Social Games: From Corrupt States to Non-corrupt Societies No access Pages 125 - 206
