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Sociology and criminology: a rapprochement -- Classical sociology and the criminological imagination: some core principles and concepts -- Violence, civilization and modernity: connecting historical sociology and contemporary criminology -- Theory, method and evidence in criminological research: classical traces and contemporary developments -- Critique and normative deliberation in criminology: value involvement and detachment revisited -- Street crime, violence and young men in late modernity -- The dark side of modernity? Genocide, ethnic cleansing and state crime -- Organizing brutality, human rights and the modern global order: beyond the civilizing process?

Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer', the book explores what each of these imaginary figures might mean for the next generation of welfare users

Gordon Hughes offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety. Drawing on new research and evidence, the text adopts an original comparativist perspective to the understanding of the culture of contemporary society

This paper engages critically with the major variants of contemporary communitarian thought on crime and disorder. It begins with an assess ment of the moral authoritarian communitarianism of Etzioni and Dennis. It is then argued that there are different and more radical appro priations of community associated with the work of intellectuals in Europe and Oceania beyond that of moral authoritarianism. In particu lar, the development of radical re-imaginings of community and social justice are identified in communitarian work on ( 1 ) local governance and the re-constitution of civil society, (2) basic income and the common good and (3) restorative justice. In conclusion, it is argued that there are progressive as well as the already widely recognized regressive poten tialities in contemporary communitarian discourses on law and order.