The politics of antisocial behaviour
Subtitle: amoral panics
By: Stuart Waiton
Series: Routledge advances in criminology -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780415957052
Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Great Britain; Moral panics -- Great Britain; Fear of crime -- Great Britain
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-183) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Safety: the new 'absolute'; title: The politics of vulnerability; title: Diminished subjectivity; title: From moral to amoral panics; title: Asocial society