Partners In Health, Partners In Crime: Exploring the Boundaries of Criminology and Sociology of Health and Illness

by Stefan Timmermans (Editor), Jonathan Gabe (Editor)

This book brings together papers on the border between crime and health care in order to examine questions of interest to both criminologists and medical sociologists.
Brings together papers on the border between crime and health care.
Considers the work of forensic health care providers, law enforcement agents and policy makers.
Explores the medical component of crime and the legal status of medicine.
Questions authority, expertise, social control, legitimacy, and credibility within criminology and medical sociology.

200 pages, Paperback

First published March 14, 2003

About the author

Stefan Timmermans is a professor of sociology at UCLA. He is the author of an award-winning scholarly book on forensic death investigations.