Title: Street Crime. By Simon Hallsworth (Cullompton: Willan, 2005, 224pp. £17.99 pb)
Abstract: Street crime is written in the context of what Simon Hallworth characterizes as another moral panic about the offence of ‘street crime’. In approaching the topic in this way, he sets this book in a tradition of writing that stresses the public and politically driven response to offences or folk devils (Cohen 1980; Pearson 1983). In addition to this context, Hallsworth argues for the need for commentators on the left to address the complex causes and dynamics of the offence and address issues of why there may have been a rise in street crime, what produces motivated offenders, how victims are targeted and how social control mechanisms attempt to confront or prevent the offence, or indeed, fail to do so. The book attempts in this way to explore the theoretical, political and historical context of ‘street crime’ and uses research with offenders in Lambeth as a case study for discussion. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 sets the historical context, Part 2 looks at differing accounts of the offence, both theoretical and political/media and the final part attempts to outline Hallsworth’s approach to the issue.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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