High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime

High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime explores the relationship between corruption, human capabilities, and crime, highlighting the impact of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime on at-risk youth's development. It argues that corrupt public officials can contribute to street crime by failing to provide adequate protection or support. The author applies moral, constitutional, and criminological principles to propose ways to curb both types of corruption.

Format: Hardback
Length: 362 pages
Publication date: 08 January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime offers a comprehensive theory of corruption, examining "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 highlights how individuals who engage in delinquency and street crime often experience arrested development of their fundamental human capabilities. Harry Adams contends that the maldevelopment of at-risk youth is not solely attributable to their own actions as children or the negligence of their biological caregivers. Furthermore, he argues that political child neglect, where corrupt public officials fail to provide adequate protection or support for their development, contributes significantly to the latter type of corruption (street crime). Adams employs moral, constitutional, and criminological principles from Derek Parfit, Ronald Dworkin, and Jeffrey Reiman to provide a systematic account of why and how both types of corruption should be curbed.

Weight: 658g
Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666932546