The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803981515)

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 levels: 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

Author: Jock Young
ISBN-10: 0803981511
ISBN-13: 9780803981515
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/13/1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.22w x 0.52d