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Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of empirical anomalies that cannot easily be reconciled with this interpretation of the evidence. Weatherburn and Lind argue that the transmission mechanism linking economic and social stress to crime is not offender motivation but disruption to the parenting process. They put forward an epidemic model of the genesis of delinquent-prone communities and show how this model resolves the empirical anomalies facing conventional interpretations of the disadvantage/crime relationship. This book offers compelling new evidence which will stimulate debate in this area of criminology and will also interest academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field

1. Summary and conclusions -- 2. Introduction and analytical framework -- 3. The costs of tariffs -- 4. Industrial science policy as an aspect of nationalism -- 5. The tariff and technological change -- Appendix A: Additional tables -- Appendix B: Sample industries.

The agenda of the Education Reform Act (1988) and the White Paper Broadcasting in the '90s: Competition, Choice and Quality is to reorganise the way that the social goods of education and broadcasting are dis tributed, and so to change the ways in which govemment/citizen relations are instituted and regulated. Much of the opposition to these changes renders itself ineffective by speaking in the terms of a cultural 'welfare statism: New alternatives based on notions of a public sphere, a radical democracy, and a republican citizenship are critically reviewed.