This new study shows how the history of British crime, policing, and criminal justice was shaped in cities like Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester, detailing how Victorian police forces were organized, how they sought to deal with crime and urban disorder, how ordinary people deal…
The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and…
It is a widespread assumption that crime and criminality can be explained as a consequence of declining morality and that crime can be brought under control by creating stronger communities. This book offers a critical exploration of the theory, policy and rhetoric that unpin th…
Crime, community and morality
by Green, Simon
fromROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN CRIME AND SOCIETY
This series seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to the fields of criminology, criminal justice and penology. Volumes published so far include discussions of Foucault and `governmentality'; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; comp…
The prevention imperative, today diffuse and pervasive, symbolizes both a self-defining doctrine and justification of a means of repression, segregation, and exclusion. From bodies to daily life to preventative war, the book investigates the effects of this imperative for social…
The prevention imperative, today diffuse and pervasive, symbolizes both a self-defining doctrine and justification of a means of repression, segregation, and exclusion. From bodies to daily life to preventative war, the book investigates the effects of this imperative for social…