期刊名称：The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
印刷版ISSN：1925-2420
出版年度：2017
卷号：6
页码：289-292
出版社：Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies
摘要：Avi Brisman’s Geometries of Crime: How Young People PerceiveCrime challenges the theoretical analyses of criminologists whodefine crime using geometric models. There are three geometricmodels of crime that Brisman examines and refutes in his book:Hagan’s (1985) “pyramid of crime,” the “square of crime” proposedby Left Realism (Young, 1994) and Henry and Lanier’s (1998)“prism of crime.” According to Brisman, each geometric modelconstructs and perceives crime, justice, victimhood and societalresponse to punishment differently. However, he argues that thesegeometries reflect adult definitions, constructions and perceptions,and do not take into account the ways in which youth act orunderstand the world. Offering a consideration of youths’ perceptionsof crime and delinquency, Brisman’s book encourages readers toquestion how youth assess “appropriate responses to crime anddelinquency by the criminal justice system, as well as their placewithin it” (Brisman, 2016, p. 26).
