The Myth of the 'Crime Decline': Exploring Change and Continuity in Crime and Harm

ISBN-13: 9780367786656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Justin Kotz?

Opis

This book reframes the ‘crime decline’ discourse and offers a more accurate account of the phenomenon by examining the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural context within which this decline is said to have occurred, exploring the changing landscape of crime and uncovering glimpses of experiential lived realities of crime and harm.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Picture in Search of a New Frame

Chapter One: Constructing the Statistical Quilt for the Comfortable Dream: Exploring the ‘International Crime Decline’

Chapter Two: Context is Everything

Chapter Three: Invisible Crimes and Non-Criminalised Harms

Chapter Four: A View from Life on the Precipice

Chapter Five: Paradigmatic Dominance and Eyes Wide Shut: Beyond Positivism and Constructionism

Chapter Six: Dreaming Comfortably: Theorising the ‘Crime Decline’ and Modernity’s Dream Myth

Conclusion

O autorze

Justin Kotzé is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Teesside University. He was awarded his PhD in 2016 and has previously published work in the fields of ex-prisoner reintegration and the historical sublimation of violence. Justin is the co-editor of Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm (2018).