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Crime, Community and Morality (Paperback)
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Crime, Community and Morality (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in
the grip of a moral crisis. 'Where have our values gone?' our
newspapers scream at us. 'Benefit scroungers', 'greedy bankers',
'intrusive journalists', 'have-a-go rioters', political scandals
and criminals of all shapes and sizes are continually cited as
evidence that we live in a modern-day Gomorrah. Criminologists have
studied this in several ways, including: media representations of
crime, mass incarceration, hooliganism and the exercise of power
and control through communities. What criminologists have not
studied is the place of morality in shaping public debate about
understanding crime and how this then shapes crime control
strategies. Rather than dismiss statements about community
breakdown, 'broken society' and irresponsibility as ideological,
self-justificatory rhetoric, what happens when we take these claims
seriously? What do they tell us about the causes of crime? How do
they shape the crime control agenda? How else might we begin to
understand and explain the relationship between crime and society?
Navigating between criminological concerns about control and
governance and social theories about culture and identity, this
book explores what is meant by crime, community and morality and
puts this meaning to the test. Discussion of a new theory of
rule-breaking, combined with an analysis of how our justice system
is becoming maladapted, makes this essential reading for
criminologists around the globe, as well as those general readers
interested in the causes of crime.
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