Product Description

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the nature of today's criminal identities. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in lower class locations, the book aims to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities, investigating the subtle attractions of violent crime and highlighting the relationship between the lived identities of active criminals and the socio-economic climate of instability and anxiety that permeates post-industrial Britain.This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and lecturers in all fields within the social sciences, but especially criminology, sociology, social policy, politics and anthropology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #297787 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Review
"'This book is criminological scholarship at its best - insightful, original, provicative and impassioned. It's central argument, that the rise of market culture and narcissistic consumerism lie at the heart of contemporary crime problems, deserves to be widely read, understood and appreciated' Majid Yar, Professor of Sociology (University of Hull)"

Customer Reviews

Late Capitalism
Like all good books on sociology/ cultural studies this book isn't written to convince you as much as challenge to make you think. What it makes you think about is the possible meanings of late capitalism and how this has reflected on behaviour.
There are sections on criminal behaviour from case studies.Various theorists work like Thomas Frank, Salvoj Zizek and Jock Young which are all critically discussed and the authors go onto to give their own formulations of theorists they discuss.
Sections of the book are not all that easy like a discussion of Jacques Lacan whose work I am not that famaliar with. But it is well worth spending some time over for those who want to gain some interesting insights inot late capitalism.