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Social Democratic Criminology (Hardcover)
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Social Democratic Criminology (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
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This book argues that 'social democratic criminology' is an
important critical perspective which is essential for the analysis
of crime and criminal justice and crucial for humane and effective
policy. The end of World War II resulted in 30 years of strategies
to create a more peaceful international order. In domestic policy,
all Western countries followed agendas informed by a social
democratic sensibility. Social Democratic Criminology argues that
the social democratic consensus has been pulled apart since the
late 1960s, by the hegemony of neoliberalism: a resuscitation of
nineteenth-century free market economics. There is now a gathering
storm of apocalyptic dangers from climate change, pandemics,
antibiotic resistance, and other existential threats. This book
shows that the neoliberal revolution of the rich pushed aside
social democratic values and policies regarding crime and security
and replaced them with tougher 'law and order' approaches. The
initial consequence was a tsunami of crime in all senses. Smarter
security techniques did succeed in abating this for a while, but
the decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis
has seen growing violent and serious crime. Social Democratic
Criminology charts the history of social democracy, discusses the
variety of conflicting ways in which it has been interpreted, and
identifies its core uniting concepts and influence on criminology
in the twentieth century. It analyses the decline of social
democratic criminology and the sustained intellectual and political
attacks it has endured. The concluding chapter looks at the
prospects for reviving social democratic criminology, itself
dependent on the prospects for a rebirth of the broader social
democratic movement. Written in a clear and direct style, this book
will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology,
cultural studies, politics, history, social policy, and all those
interested in social democracy and its importance for society.
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