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In this major new work, which Zygmunt Bauman calls a ‘tour de force of breathtaking erudition and clarity’, Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division. Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, explores exclusion on three levels: economic exclusion from the labour market; social exclusion between people in civil society; and the ever-expanding exclusionary activities of the criminal justice system. Taking account of the massive dramatic structural and cultural changes that have beset our society and relating these to the quantum leap in crime and incivilities, Jock Young develops a major new theory based on a new citizenship and a reflexive modernity
Crime and Discord in an Age of Late Modernity
Crime and Discord in an Age of Late Modernity
It is my belief that the last 20 years has witnessed the most profound transformation in criminology. Heralded by the new deviancy ‘explosion’ of theory in the late 1960s and early 1970s and with The New Criminology (Taylor et al., 1973) as a ...
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