The administration of prison regimes in modern Britain has remained a subject of intense debate and controversy for a number of years; in this book, based upon pioneering empirical research, three leading authorities examine the character of social life within two maximum-security prisons. By systematic comparison of the two prisons the authors compare the institutional structures and strategies they deploy for control of inmates. The material is set within the framework of a broader, social theory context. Original, scholarly, and carefully argued, this study will be of central interest to...
The administration of prison regimes in modern Britain has remained a subject of intense debate and controversy for a number of years; in this book, b...
This text offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical subjects of criminological investigation as youth, public order, drugs, policing and home security in their community. In doing so it moves in place from comfortable suburbs to hard pressed inner city estates, from the affluent to the impoverished, from old people watching the town where they grew up change around them to young in-comers...
This text offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces t...
Just what is the fear of crime and how does it impact upon the lives of the citizens of late modern societies? These are topical questions in an era when politicians compete to diagnose and respond to our worries, when newspapers are sold on the hook of our anxieties and when fortunes are made promoting the latest security technology for the home and the high street. How can the social sciences contribute to this part of the self-understanding of our times? This book presents empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living...
Just what is the fear of crime and how does it impact upon the lives of the citizens of late modern societies? These are topical questions in an era w...
Just what is the fear of crime and how does it impact upon the lives of the citizens of late modern societies? These are topical questions in an era when politicians compete to diagnose and respond to our worries, when newspapers are sold on the hook of our anxieties and when fortunes are made promoting the latest security technology for the home and the high street. How can the social sciences contribute to this part of the self-understanding of our times? This book presents empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living...
Just what is the fear of crime and how does it impact upon the lives of the citizens of late modern societies? These are topical questions in an era w...
