The politics of antisocial behaviour : amoral panics /
Waiton, Stuart,
The politics of antisocial behaviour : amoral panics / Stuart Waiton. - xx, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in criminology ; 3 . - Routledge advances in criminology ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-183) and index.
Introduction -- Safety: the new 'absolute' -- The politics of vulnerability -- Diminished subjectivity -- From moral to amoral panics -- Asocial society.
"Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of risk, the book develops Furedi's understanding of a Culture of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state of affairs has arisen due to the collapse of traditional politics and morality, and equally, of radical alternatives to it. Central to Waiton's thesis is an explanation of the changing therapeutic relationship between the individual and society based on an understanding of diminished subjectivity and the newly emerged vulnerable public."--Publisher's website.
0415957052 9780415957052
2007025255
Deviant behavior--Great Britain
Moral panics--Great Britain
Fear of crime--Great Britain
HM811 / .W39 2008
302.170941
The politics of antisocial behaviour : amoral panics / Stuart Waiton. - xx, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in criminology ; 3 . - Routledge advances in criminology ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-183) and index.
Introduction -- Safety: the new 'absolute' -- The politics of vulnerability -- Diminished subjectivity -- From moral to amoral panics -- Asocial society.
"Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of risk, the book develops Furedi's understanding of a Culture of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state of affairs has arisen due to the collapse of traditional politics and morality, and equally, of radical alternatives to it. Central to Waiton's thesis is an explanation of the changing therapeutic relationship between the individual and society based on an understanding of diminished subjectivity and the newly emerged vulnerable public."--Publisher's website.
0415957052 9780415957052
2007025255
Deviant behavior--Great Britain
Moral panics--Great Britain
Fear of crime--Great Britain
HM811 / .W39 2008
302.170941