The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity

by Jock Young

Book Overview

In this major new work, which Zygmunt Bauman calls a ′tour de force of breathtaking erudition and clarity′, Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division.

Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, explores exclusion on three levels: economic exclusion from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803981511
• ISBN13: 9780803981515
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"