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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
A World Holding Together and Falling Apart
A World Holding Together and Falling Apart
Both the inclusive society of the 1960s and the exclusive world of recent years have been failures. Inclusion demanded uniformity, a homogeneity of culture and identity. It concealed rank divisions between the sexes, between ethnic groups and between classes. The exclusive world which followed it granted diversity yet ...
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