The Safety Utopia. Contemporary Discontent and Desire as to Crime and Punishment.
Hans Boutellier
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Description for The Safety Utopia. Contemporary Discontent and Desire as to Crime and Punishment.
Hardback. Talks about senseless violence and silent marches, about politics of decency and child pornography, about religion and living on the edge, about victims and offenders in that order, and especially about crime and punishment. This is a diagnosis of modern culture. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; LA; PBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 920.
My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that crime-related problems would occupy such a prominent position in cultural awareness. Crime is on the rise, the public attention devoted to it has increased even more, and its political importance has mushroomed. The major change in the 1990s was perhaps the transformation of crime into a safety issue. Crime is no longer a matter involving offenders, victims, the police and the courts, it involves everyone and any number of agencies and ... Read more
My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that crime-related problems would occupy such a prominent position in cultural awareness. Crime is on the rise, the public attention devoted to it has increased even more, and its political importance has mushroomed. The major change in the 1990s was perhaps the transformation of crime into a safety issue. Crime is no longer a matter involving offenders, victims, the police and the courts, it involves everyone and any number of agencies and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402023972
SKU
V9781402023972
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99-15
Reviews for The Safety Utopia. Contemporary Discontent and Desire as to Crime and Punishment.
Comments in the Dutch press (translated): "an ongoing Aha-erlebnis, ...a brilliant diagnosis of today's society." "…The Safety Utopia belongs on the bookshelf alongside other social-scientific analyses of our times such as Anthony Giddens’s The Consequences of Modernity (1990), Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty’s Policing the Risk Society (1997) and David Garland’s The Culture of Control (2001)." (Sir ... Read more