Crime, Risk and Justice

by Stenson; Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781903240380
• ISBN10: 1903240387
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

From being a relatively marginal political issue, crime control has risen rapidly up the social and political agendas of western societies. As inequalities have increased, so the actual and perceived risks of crime and other social ills have grown rapidly for all sections of society: the management of risk has become a central concern.In response, the state has increasingly devolved responsibility for personal security onto individuals, resulting in an explosion of private security arrangements related to the home, the person and personal property. At the same time the state has addressed itself in increasingly draconian fashion to more serious crime: retributive sentencing has grown even harsher.This book addresses a range of themes arising from these developments. An eminent cast of criminologists from Britain, the USA and Australia explores the links between crime and risk -- from the depiction of crime in the media to the dilemmas of policing, from the new punitiveness of criminal justice systems to the custodial warehousing of the poor and excluded.A central connecting theme of the book is that crime control can no longer be viewed as a technical operation of law enforcement and adjudication; rather it has become a central feature of the increasingly pluralised and complex government of liberal societies.v

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Biographical details of contributors	vii
Introduction: a guide to the chapters	1	(12)
Kevin Stenson
Robert R. Sullivan
Part One: Crime, liberalism and risk	13	(36)
The new politics of crime control	15	(14)
Kevin Stenson
The schizophrenic state: neo-liberal criminal justice	29	(20)
Robert R. Sullivan
Part Two: Community initiatives and risk	49	(38)
Risk and community practice	51	(17)
Todd Clear
Eric Cadora
Crime Control and liberal government: the `third way' and the return to the local	68	(19)
Kevin Stenson
Adam Edwards
Part Three: Policing and the risk society	87	(36)
Policing crime risks in the neo-liberal era	89	(15)
Pat O'Malley
Lost connections and new directions: neo-liberalism, new public managerialism, and the `modernization' of the British police	104	(19)
Eugene McLaughlin
Karim Murji
Part Four: Criminal justice and risk	123	(50)
`Entitlement to cruelty': neo-liberalism and the punitive mentality in the United States	125	(19)
Jonathan Simon
Punishment, rights and difference: defending justice in the risk society	144	(29)
Barbara Hudson
Part Five: The media, crime and risk	173	(55)
Casino culture: media, and crime in a winner-loser society	194	(1)
Robert Reiner
Sonia Livingstone
Jessica Allen
`Bringin' it all back home': populism, media coverage and the dynamics of locality and globality in the politics of crime control	194	(20)
Richard Sparks
American television, crime and the risk society	214	(14)
Philip Green
Index	228