The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour
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The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

Amoral Panics

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

Amoral Panics

About this book

Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of risk, the book develops Furedi's understanding of a Culture of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state of affairs has arisen due to the collapse of traditional politics and morality, and equally, of radical alternatives to it. Central to Waiton's thesis is an explanation of the changing therapeutic relationship between the individual and society based on an understanding of diminished subjectivity and the newly emerged vulnerable public.

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Information

Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780415957052
eBook ISBN
9781135909314
Edition
1
Subtopic
Criminologie

Table of contents

  1. Routledge Advances in Criminology
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Safety—The New ‘Absolute’
  7. 3 The Politics of Vulnerability
  8. 4 Diminished Subjectivity
  9. 5 From Moral to Amoral Panics
  10. 6 Asocial Society
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index