Binding: Paperback
Description: This book argues that social democratic criminology is an important critical perspective which is essential for the analysis of crime and criminal justice and crucial for humane and effective policy. The end of World War II resulted in 30 years of strategies to create a more peaceful international order. In domestic policy all Western countries followed agendas informed by a social democratic sensibility. Social Democratic Criminology argues that the social democratic consensus has been pulled apart since the late 1960s by the hegemony of neoliberalism: a resuscitation of nineteenth - century free market economics. There is now a gathering storm of apocalyptic dangers from climate change pandemics antibiotic resistance and other existential threats. This book shows that the neoliberal revolution of the rich pushed aside social democratic values and policies regarding crime and security and replaced them with tougher law and order approaches. The initial consequence was a tsunami of crime in all senses. Smarter security techniques did succeed in abating this for a while but the decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has seen growing violent and serious crime. Social Democratic Criminology charts the history of social democracy discusses the variety of conflicting ways in which it has been interpreted and identifies its core uniting concepts and influence on criminology in the twentieth century. It analyses the decline of social democratic criminology and the sustained intellectual and political attacks it has endured. The concluding chapter looks at the prospects for reviving social democratic criminology itself dependent on the prospects for a rebirth of the broader social democratic movement. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology cultural studies politics history social policy and all those interested in social democracy and its importance for society.
Title: Social Democratic Criminology
Author(s): Reiner Robert (London School Of Economics Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138238794
Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Date: 11/3/2020
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
Category: Criminology: Legal Aspects