Limited responsibilities/ by Jamar Pitch

Includes bibliography and index

1. Processes and products of social control. the use and abuse of a concept --2. Studying the "criminal question". the object of criminology and the responsibility of the criminologist --3. Radical enquiries, unfounded policies --4. Rather riders than horses? the use of the symbolic potential of criminal justice y actors in conflict --5. The question of juvenile deviance --6. Criminal responsibility and mental illness. the criminal justice system and the new psychiatry --7. From oppression to victimization. the debate on the merlin law --8. From victimization to autonomy. women, feminism and the law on rape --9. A politics of sovereignty.