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This book deals with fundamental issues in the science of Criminology: it explores the central theories on the causes of crime and its treatment, examines the social construction of crime through the creation of criminal law and social pressures, refutes biological and genetic theories, and approaches crime and its response as a unified problem. Its goal is not to be a Criminology handbook. It is aimed at experts, but mainly at non-expert readers who want to understand the complexity of the criminal phenomenon as a social issue and its correlation with a wide range of social relationships, including power relationships, rather than the "ontological" qualities of the criminal.