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Autore: | Rodger John J |
Titolo: | Criminalising social policy : anti-social behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society / / John J. Rodger |
Pubblicazione: | Cullompton, UK ; ; Portland, Or., : Willan, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.330941 |
Soggetto topico: | Social control - Great Britain |
Nuisances - Great Britain | |
Public welfare - Great Britain | |
Criminal justice, Administration of - Great Britain | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Social policy |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Criminalising Social Policy Anti-social behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Outline of the book; Chapter 1 Criminalising social policy: some general observations; Criminalising social policy; Welfare and discipline; Civil law and natural justice; Dysfunctional families and anti-social children; Concluding observations; Chapter 2 Incivility and welfare in a de-civilised society; The theory of the civilising process; De-civilisation and welfare retrenchment; Attitudes, emotions and post-emotionalism |
De-civilising tendencies in penal policyConcluding observations; Chapter 3 Disorderly behaviour and underclass culture: the emergence of the 'chav' and 'NEET' generation; The creation of the 'NEET' generation; The enduring issue of the underclass; The coarsening of culture; Class, culture and consumption; Culture and instrumentalism; Value orientations or cultural toolkit?; Concluding observations; Chapter 4 The politics and policy of incivility; Informalisation and crime as a normal social fact; The 'new politics of welfare': from social steering to social regulation | |
The politics of withholding benefitsRegulatory communities and the politics of social inclusion; Concluding observations; Chapter 5 Family life and anti-social behaviour; Personal relationships in contemporary society; Family life and criminality; The de-civilising of parents; Family policy and anti-social behaviour under New Labour; Intensive family support: the case of the Dundee Family Project; Concluding observations: desistance from crime and anti-social behaviour; Chapter 6 Child welfare and juvenile justice; Punishing parents and the anti-social behaviour strategy | |
Youth offending and juvenile justice in EnglandThe Children's Hearing system in Scotland; Restorative practices; Concluding observations; Chapter 7 The strategy for civil renewal and community safety; The 'third way' and the voluntary sector; Civil renewal, welfare and inauthentic politics; Community safety and established-outsider relations; Concluding observations; Chapter 8 Fear of the uncivil and the criminal; Civilising security; Signal crimes and fear; Streetwise behaviour as inverted fear; Social policy and the problem of security; Concluding observations | |
Chapter 9 Conclusions: criminology and social policySocial policy or moral regulation?; Welfare and institutional anomie; Social policy and criminal justice: finding the balance; References; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Recent legislative and policy developments in contemporary Britain have ushered in a new approach to criminal justice. The focus on criminal dispositions and welfarism has given way to a strategy which now involves the management of social exclusion, dysfunctional and anti-social families and situational crime prevention, leading to what has been widely characterized as the 'criminalisation of social policy' - and evidenced most recently by the anti-social behaviour and respect agendas. This book is concerned to explore, analyse and explain these developments. It seeks at the same ti |
Titolo autorizzato: | Criminalising Social Policy |
ISBN: | 1-134-00294-7 |
1-134-00287-4 | |
1-283-88859-9 | |
1-282-07756-2 | |
9786612077562 | |
1-84392-540-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823760503321 |
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