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The issue of the politics of criminology is a significant theme in academic debate, policy implementation and legal reform. Against administrative criminologists who have been criticized as „technicians of the State“ or „apologists for criminal justice“, functioning primarily to „manage“ the consequences and conflict of structural inequalities in advanced democratic states, this book tries to bring policy back to what it was, a sociological study of the entire social framework of the inequalities of power, wealth and authority which is the result of class relations of industrial society.

Critical Criminology of Leisure aims to play the role of an introductory essay, of a concise guide for the theoretical study and research on a social field which emerges as the point of intersection of two established scientific subjects: leisure and crime. The concept of '`leisure" is used as a methodological tool, as privileged social time for the study of the social problems of modern societies and more specifically for the study of the issue of criminalization or the forms of action (or inactivity) of formal social control agents and the legitimization of this action by the public.