
Crime in Context
A Critical Criminology of Market Societies
By: Ian Taylor
eBook | 28 June 2013 | Edition Number 1
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This book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a 'free market society' in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime. It offers an evaluation of the theoretical schools in social theory and in criminology which continue to dominate the academy, but whose purchase on contemporary realities is everywhere slipping.
Industry Reviews
'This timely book will be useful both to students and professional criminologists in that it puts late twentieth-century developments in crime and disorder within a broad social and historical context. There is no other book that does this. I have no doubt that it will find a wide and enthusiastic audience.' Jock Young, Middlesex University
"This book is a scholarly and finely crafted account of the major social transformations wrought by marketisation and the consequences of this for crime and social order. Its theoretical and policy relevance make it a landmark text for a wide readership seeking a more critical grasp of crime and criminology in a global market world." Andrew Pithouse, Cardiff University
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1. Social Transitions of the Late Twentieth Century: 'Crime' and 'Fear' in Context.
2. The Ninth Transition: The Rise of Market Society.
3. Young People, Crime and Fear in Market Societies.
4. Crime in the City: Housing Market and Consumer Markets and the Social Geography of Crime and Anxiety in Market Society.
5. Fraudsters and Villains: the Private Temptations of Market Society.
6. Lethal Markets: the Legal and Illegal Economies in Firearms.
7. The Market in Social Control.
8. Crime in the Future(s) Market.
Bibliography.
Notes.
Index.
ISBN: 9780745668727
ISBN-10: 0745668720
Published: 28th June 2013
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 316
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Polity Press
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
























