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Crime control is in crisis. Not
only have levels of crime risen, but crime is increasingly regarded
as a normal aspect of the social and economic system, rather than
as disruption or
deviance.
This book develops a broad historical and
sociological overview relating the rise and fall of the
preconditions for effective criminalisation and crime control to the
processes of modernisation and industrialisation.
In
the early years of the present century it is clear that these
preconditions are now being progressively undermined, as industrial
society undergoes profound changes in its direction of development.
The result is traced through a variety of types of criminality and
the progressive debilitation of existing institutions and processes
of crime control.
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