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The politics of antisocial behaviour : amoral panics / Stuart Waiton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in criminology ; 3.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xx, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415957052
  • 9780415957052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.170941 22
LOC classification:
  • HM811 .W39 2008
Contents:
Introduction -- Safety: the new 'absolute' -- The politics of vulnerability -- Diminished subjectivity -- From moral to amoral panics -- Asocial society.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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