ABSTRACT
It is important to emphasise that this inclusion of vast numbers of petty events which would score relatively lowly on scales of seriousness is not simply a function of the definition of crime in the criminal law. There are, of course, processes of selectivity in terms of which crimes are selected for control by criminal justice agencies, and how these
In general, then, it is our view that all forms of theorising and intellectual practice lend to reity, support and indeed enhance that very phenomenon which is at the centre of their activity. Disciplines produce and reproduce their objects of study. Thus, no matter how deconstructive, radical, or critical a criminology is, in the very fact of engaging in criminology this at once legitimates some object of 'crime'.
