Crime Unlimited?: Questions for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780333725023 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 217 str.

Carlen, Pat

Opis

Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation. It includes discussion of contemporary issues such as steroid use, gun control, privatised policing and youth scares involving alcopops and drugs. It also re-examines recurring issues about policing and punishment. The authors include: Rebecca and Russell Dobash, Chris Hale, Dick Hobbs, Ian Loader, Tim Newburn, Howard Parker, Richard Sparks, and Ian Taylor.

Spis treści

Introduction; P.Carlen and R.Morgan Landscapes of Protection: The Past, Present and Futures of Policing in an English Town; I.Loader, E.Girling and R.Sparks The Labour Market and Post-War Crime Trends in England and Wales; C.Hale Serious Crime Networks: The Police Response to a Local Problem; D.Hobbs and C.Dunnighan CCTV and the Surveillance Society; C.Norris and G.Armstrong Policing Public and Private Space in Late Modern Britain; T.Jones and T.Newburn Respectable, Rural and English: The Lobby Against the Regulation of Firearms in Great Britain; I.Taylor Illegal leisure: Alcohol, Drugs and the Regulation of Modern Youth; H.Parker Bodybuilding, Steroids and Violence: Is There a Connection?; R.P.Dobash, L.Monaghan, R.E.Dobash and M.Bloor Regulating Crime Control; R.Morgan and P.Carlen Index

O autorze

MICHAEL BLOOR GARY ARMSTRONG Lecturer in Criminology, University of Reading REBECCA DOBASH Professor of Social Policy at Manchester University RUSSELL DOBASH Professor of Criminology at Manchester University CLIVE DUNNIGHAN EVI GIRLING Research Fellow in the Department of Criminology at Keele University CHRIS HALE Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent DICK HOBBS Reader in Sociology at the University of Durham TREVOR JONES Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh IAN LOADER Lecturer in the Department of Criminology at Keele University LEE MONAGHAN TIM NEWBURN Professor of Urban Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London CLIVE MORRIS Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull HOWARD PARKER Professor of Social Policy at Manchester University RICHARD SPARKS Professor of Criminology at Keele University IAN TAYLOR Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford