A Suitable Amount of Crime

"A Suitable Amount of Crime looks at the great variations between countries in what are considered "unwanted acts", how many are constructed as criminal and how many are punished. It explains the differences between Eastern and Western Europe and between the United States and the rest of the world. The author denounces the size of prison populations in punitive states as a threat to human values and civil forms of socities and proposes academics and researchers have a moral obligation to highlight that alternatives exist."--Jacket.