Crime in Context

by Ian R. Taylor

This book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a "free market society" in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime. It offers an evaluation of the theoretical schools in social theory and in criminology which continue to dominate the academy, but whose purchase on contemporary realities is slipping everywhere. Crime in Context begins with an analysis of the nine different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813368065
• ISBN13: 9780813368061
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages