The safety utopia : contemporary discontent and desire as to crime and punishment
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Hans Boutellier
- ناشر : Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2004
- شابک / ISBN : 9781402023989
Description
Preface ix Foreword xi Introduction 1 Vitality and safety 2 Culture of control 3 The safety utopia 7 11 September 9 Structure of the book 11 I Morality and Risks 15 1 Realistic Discontent and Utopian Desire 17 Postmodern morality 18 The religious option 20 The politics of decency 23 Morality without illusions 26 The other side of the moral coin 28 2 The Safety Utopia 31 Living with risks 32 The psychological reversal 34 The utopian temptation 36 Bellamy’s year 2000 38 A new moral order 41 II Characters and Manifestations 45 3 The Pornographic Context of Sex Crimes 47 Sexual identities 48 Intimacy and eroticism 51 The pornographic context 53 v vi CONTENTS Pornography and sex crimes 55 Child pornography as counterpoint 58 4 Senseless Violence and the Sound of Silent Marches 61 Vitality and violence 62 White balloons in Belgium 65 Silent marches in the Netherlands 67 Temporary sense of community 71 The aesthetic/ethical community 73 5 The Controversial Victim and the Offender 75 Victimalization 76 Victimism 78 The emancipated victim 80 The responsible offender 83 The attitude of the public 86 III Punishment, Control and Democracy 89 6 The Changing Significance of Criminal Justice 91 Crime as a safety issue 91 Two prototypes of criminal justice 94 The sense of urgency 96 The criminal justice paradox 99 The totalitarian temptation 101 7 Criminal Proceedings as Tragedy 105 Meanings of punishment 106 Punishment as communication 108 Rationalization and moralization 110 The crucial position of the victim 113 The end of a monopoly 116 8 Democratic Safety Policy 119 An unexpected development 120 Contradictions 122 The state, the market and the community 125 Local safety policy 127 The principle of hope 130 Closing Comments 133 Political sensitivity 135 Scope of criminology 136 CONTENTS vii Strategic science 139 The criminologist as an intellectual 140 Justification and justice 142 References 145
