Jock Young Livres

Lively, innovative, engaging, and accessible, Cultural Criminology draws together the work of three of the leading international figures in the field today. The book traces the history, current configuration, methodological innovations and future trajectories of cultural criminology, mapping its terrain for students and academics interested in this exciting field. The book highlights and analyzes issues of representation, meaning, and politics in relation to crime and criminal justice, covering areas such as crime and the media, everyday life and everyday transgression, popular culture, consumerism, globalization, and social control.

This seminal text, first published in 1973, is pivotal in the evolution of critical criminological theory, highlighting the limitations of classical and positivist approaches. It effectively connects criminology with sociological theory, offering insights that remain significant today. By challenging established norms, it paved the way for a deeper understanding of crime within social contexts, making it a crucial read for those interested in the complexities of criminology.

The book explores the transformation of society in the late twentieth century, highlighting the shift from stability and homogeneity to change and division. Jock Young provides a compelling analysis of this social evolution, presenting innovative insights that resonate with a broad audience.

Describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. This book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'.

In 1973 The New Criminology was published and quickly established itself as a key textbook in criminology, casting a major influence over a generation of scholars. This volume, published twenty-five years later, traces the major developments in the field including feminism, postmodernism, critical criminology and realism.

In this highly acclaimed memoir the writer Jeff Young takes us on a journey through the Liverpool of his youth, down the back alleys and through arcades, through arcades and oyster bars into vanished tenements.

Rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. This title draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.

John Steinbeck was a writer who continually struggled to awaken America's social conscience, and this riveting biography for young readers illustrates both his triumphs and hardships as he worked to give underprivileged Americans a voice.

“This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.” In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, Ferrell situates the contemporary global phenomenon of drift within today’s economic, social, and cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American form of drift—that of the train-hopping hobo—by tracing the hobo’s political history and by sharing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and explores the contested politics of drift—the legal and political strategies designed to control drifters in the interest of economic development, the irony by which these strategies spawn further social and spatial exclusion, and the ways in which drifters and those who embrace drift create their own slippery strategies of resistance. With an eye toward the truth, Ferrell keenly argues that the lessons of drift can provide us with new models for knowing and engaging with the world around us.