The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity

by Jock Young

In this major new work, which Zygmunt Bauman calls a ′ tour de force of breathtaking erudition and clarity′, Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division. Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, explores exclusion on three economic exclusion from the labour market; social exclusion between people in civil society; and the ever-expanding exclusionary activities of the criminal justice system. Taking account of the massive dramatic structural and cultural changes that have beset our society and relating these to the quantum leap in crime and i

Genres: Sociology

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Aidan Lang]

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