The myth of the "crime decline" : exploring change and continuity in crime and harm /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in crime and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a picture in search of a new frame; A note on methodology; Structure and content; 1 Constructing the statistical quilt for the comfortable dream: exploring the 'international crime decline'; The international crime victims survey; Practical limitations and methodological issues of the ICVS; Reframing the 'international crime decline' discourse; Criminal obsolescence and the mutation of crime; Constructing the statistical quilt; 2 Context is everything
- Contextualising Lake TownNeoliberalism and economic globalisation; Globalising the illicit; The 'glocal' connection; 3 Invisible crimes and non-criminalised harms; The hidden landscape of global crime; The hidden landscape of everyday crime; Zemiology and the exploration of non-criminalised harms; Criminology or zemiology? Yes, please!; Finding 'harm's' ontological reality; 4 A view from life on the precipice; 'You should have called it skid row'; 'The frontline is all-around'; 'Well that's just normal now'; 'You've got like police recorded crime and then you have crime'
- 'Crime's changing, it's evolving''People believe what they want to believe'; 5 Paradigmatic dominance and eyes wide shut: beyond positivism and constructionism; Positivism and constructionism; Critical realism: beyond positivism and constructionism; The turn to speculative realism and transcendental materialism; Managed deaptation through the pseudo-pacification process; 6 Dreaming comfortably: theorising the 'crime decline' and modernity's dream myth; Analysing modernity's dream myth; The myth-sustaining dream; The myth of the 'crime decline'; A multipurpose dream myth
- Degrees of assimilationConclusion; References; Index