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The Truth About Crime

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Truth About Crime

By Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff

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About the book

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at re...Show more

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ISBN

9780226424910

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

The Truth About Crime

Format

Paperback

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