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Lev, Daniel S
Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam, 05/2018Book Chapter
If nature pondered a means of keeping assorted intellectuals, philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and reformers off the streets, it could not do better than to give them criminality to think about. There is not much about crime on which students of it agree. Is it eternal, caused by a never ending supply of evil people, do otherwise good people make bad mistakes, or are we all victims of our economic and social conditions? Is it fundamentally a matter of cultural construction, or social construction, or elite construction; religious tenet, moral consensus, political will, economic interest?¹ If criminality is a quagmire,
