The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

"Waiton's book warns us about what can happen when policy makers panic. This agenda setting text provides great insight into the politics of fear."

-Professor Frank Furedi

"In Amoral Panics, Stuart Waiton offers an insightful interpretation of why contemporary fears focus on issues of safety and victimization. His analysis of British concerns with antisocial behavior can help us understand all manner of modern anxieties."

- Joel Best, author of Damned Lies and Statistics and Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads

"This book by a leading figure in US/UK sociology, drawing on recent research, gives a fascinating account."

- Francis Bennion, Your Voice

"Waiton has produced a thought-provoking and challenging book; that takes recent criminological debates (such as those around social control, actuarial justice, risk and fear of crime) and resituates them within a wider sociological thesis about the decline of coherent political culture."

- Majid Yar, University of Hull, Crime, Media, Culture

"This is a book packed with sharp and original insights that marks out a significant new line of enquiry for theories of criminal law and criminal justice."

- Peter Ramsay, London School of Economics, Criminology and Criminal Justice

"This work should be widely read. It is an acute analysis that effectively challenges common explanations for what are assumed to be social problems."

- Harris Chaiklin, University of Maryland, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease