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Fairness and Crime: A Theory

By Mark S. Davis
Routledge July 2025

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9781032638850
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Routledge
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July 2025
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Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis. Long dominated by sociology’s view of crime and its causes, criminology has recently witnessed the rise of a new cadre of academics who feel free to explore other explanations. Fairness and Crime: A Theory offers a comprehensive new perspective on criminal behavior that will reinvigorate the field and help us understand why we consider some acts criminal as well as why and how society should respond to those acts.

In this book, Mark S. Davis connects the challenges of understanding crime and administering justice to common norms that guide behavior in everyday life. He contends that the exchanges society defines as criminal work basically the way as all other exchanges, and when offenders rob banks, bilk investors, or fabricate scientific data, they engage in a violation of fairness norms. Davis offers a theory that is informed by insights from game theory research, anthropology, law, organizational/industrial psychology, personality/social psychology, and sociology. He utilizes examples drawn from everyday life to illustrate the theory’s concepts in detail.

Fairness and Crime: A Theory provides a platform from which to explore the purposes of the criminal justice system. What are we trying to accomplish when we prosecute criminal suspects? While one answer is that we are trying to vindicate the moral order and deter future offending, another is that we are attempting to restore equity for victims caused by offenders’ exploitative or retaliatory behavior. Davis contends that addressing unfairness is what the criminal justice system should be about. In rehabilitation we should be trying to inculcate fairness norms where they are absent or where they have been compromised.

Table of Contents

1. Crime in Contemporary Society
2. The Challenges of Crime Control
3. Criminology’s Crises of Identity and Relevance
4. Behavioral Options in Social Exchange
5. The Importance of Fairness in Social Life
6. Fairness and Crime: A Theory
7. Fairness Theory and The Criminal Justice System
8. Fairness: A Theory for Insight, A Theory for Change
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