Crime In Context - 9780367157982

Taylor & Francis

This book aims to explore one of the most obvious areas of discontent in post-Fordist societies, the ever-intrusive fear and reality of crime. It provides an analysis that explains the varieties of actually occurring behaviours which certainly are very firmly defined by their victims as crime. > This book aims to explore one of the most obvious areas of discontent in post-Fordist societies, the ever-intrusive fear and reality of crime. It provides an analysis that explains the varieties of actually occurring behaviours which certainly are very firmly defined by their victims as crime. > Introduction 1. Social Transitions of the Late Twentieth Century: 'Crime' and 'Fear' in Context 2. The Ninth Transition: The Rise of Market Society 3. Young People, Crime and Fear in Market Societies 4. Crime in the City: Housing and Consumer Markets and the Social Geography of Crime and Anxiety in Market Society 5. Fraudsters and Villains: The Private Temptations of Market Society 6. Lethal Mart