{"product_id":"crime-and-social-exclusion-isbn-9780631209126","title":"Crime and Social Exclusion","description":"Via a mutual concern with social exclusion, the agendas of criminology and social policy have begun to overlap far more in recent years. The two fields have always shared a common concern with class, and more recently with race and gender, but remained rigorously differentiated until crime prevention moved higher on political and academic agendas in the 1980s. This collection of papers explores aspects of social exclusion and the measures taken to reduce its impact from the perspective of both disciplines. The contributors write mainly, though not exclusively, from a British perspective, However the issues raised are of broader relevance to North America, Europe and elsewhere. Criminology in Britain has recently been examining the way in which political initiatives designed to contain and exclude dispossessed populations (seen to constitute major crime risks) have permeated all areas of criminal justice policy. In America this has led to an increased emphasis on the rhetoric of retribution, and the 'management' of criminal classes, shifting away from earlier emphasis on 'rehabilitating' individual offenders. Critics of this development increasingly recognise that more practical answers to crime involve not more penal repression but social policies designed to integrate and include the dispossessed, especially the young. It is in this connection that the experience of Singapore offers a different sort of warning.  1. Editorial Introduction: Catherine Jones Finer and Mike Nellis. \u003cp\u003e2. Creating a Safer Society: David Donnison.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Linking Housing Changes to Crime: Alan Murie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Local Politics of Inclusion: the State and Community Safety: John Pitts and Tim Hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Dangerous Futures: Social Exclusion and Youth Work in Late Modernity: Alan France and Paul Wiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Anti-racism and the Limits of Equal Opportunities Policies in the Criminal Justice System: David Denney.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Probation and Social Exclusion: David Smith and John Stewart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Criminal Policy and the Eliminative Ideal: Andrew Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Framing the Other: Criminality, Social Exclusion and Social Engineering in Developing Singapore: John Clammer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The New Social Policy in Britain: Catherine Jones Finer.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This collection provides a thoughtful and incisive commentary on key current developments relating to crime and social exclusion. This is strongly recommended reading for both practitioners and policy makers.\" \u003ci\u003ePaul Cavadino, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders\u003c\/i\u003e \"Seven professors plus seven other eminent academics provide a penetrating analysis of the causes and possible remedies for the social malaise which many of us consider is sharply worsening throughout the social spectrum in every continent.\" \u003ci\u003eNoel G Hustlet, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley Monthly Meeting\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCrime and Social Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003eis the first in a s series of books especially intended to stimulate fresh thinking by bringing a wide range of disciplines and approaches to bear on the social policy debate. It explores aspects of social exclusion and the measures taken to reduce its impact from the perspectives of criminology and social policy.\" \u003ci\u003eGordon Hughes, University of Wales, Cardiff\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCrime and Social Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent collection of essays which together provide a timeley introduction to important aspects of current debates about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, community and neighbourhood decline, youth crime and criminal justice systems, and the way that state politics and policies intervene in all this. It should be read widely in policy and academic circles and is likely to appear on some quite diverse student reading lists.\" \u003ci\u003eRobert MacDonald, University of Teesside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eCatherine Jones Finer\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Birmingham and Editor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Policy and Administration.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Nellis\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Birmingham.\u003c\/p\u003e  Via a mutual concern with social exclusion, the agendas of criminology and social policy have begun to overlap far more in recent years. The two fields have always shared a common concern with class, and more recently with race and gender, but remained rigorously differentiated until crime prevention moved higher on political and academic agendas in the 1980s. This collection of papers explores aspects of social exclusion and the measures taken to reduce its impact from the perspective of both disciplines. \u003cp\u003eThe contributors write mainly, though not exclusively, from a British perspective. However the issues raised are of broader relevance to North America, Europe and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriminology in Britain has recently been examining the way in which political initiatives designed to contain and exclude dispossessed populations (seen to constitute major crime risks) have permeated all areas of criminal justice policy. In America this has led to an increased emphasis on the rhetoric of retribution, and the \"management\" of criminal classes, shifting away from earlier emphasis on \"rehabilitating\" individual offenders. Critics of this development increasingly recognize that more practical answers to crime involve not more penal repression but social policies designed to integrate and include the dispossessed, especially the young. It is in this connection that the experience of Singapore offers a different sort of warning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989004533989,"sku":"NP9780631209126","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631209126.jpg?v=1761782396","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/crime-and-social-exclusion-isbn-9780631209126","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}