Abstract

Political crime, as a category, is widely recognized as one of the oldest types of crime in human history and one that has affected numerous societies. However, from content analysis research, we find that political crime typically is absent from introductory criminology and criminal justice texts. This paper describes the content analysis research and the quantitative and qualitative coverage given to political crime in contemporary introductory texts. Furthermore, this paper shows that the concept rarely appears in introductory texts; when it does so, the coverage is, superficial, at best.

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