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...
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...
