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4. Non-participation and crime: constructing connections -- Introduction -- Section 1: Constructing discursive connections -- The risk factor prevention paradigm -- Birth cohort studies -- The non-participation-crime link in policy discourses -- Section 2: Young people and the 'economic causes of crime' thesis -- At and beyond the limits of aggregate statistical modelling -- Differentiating causality: instrumental and expressive crime -- The welfare-crime relationship -- Reverse causality in the unemployment-crime relation? -- Concluding comments -- 5. Unemployment, crime and recession -- Introduction -- Section 1: Crime and recession -- Section2: Reduced youth crime in the global financial crisis? -- Section 3: The global financial crisis, social cohesion and social unrest -- Concluding comments -- Interpretive review -- Part Three. Theorising non-participation -- 6. Lines of division, points of entry: two theories -- Introduction -- Section 1: Jürgen Habermas: systems and lifeworlds -- Systems and lifeworlds -- Colonisation and uncoupling -- Idiographic effects of the erosions of social reproduction -- Constructing a Habermasian interpretation of non-participation -- Young people, welfare and disjuncture in Habermas' social theory -- Systems-induced pathologies in the lifeworld -- Section 2: Imogen Tyler: revolting subjects and social abjection -- Section 3: Reinterpreting non-participation -- 7. Theorising the non-participation-crime relationship -- Introduction -- Section 1: Theories of non-participation and crime -- Beyond binaries: reinterpreting the non-participation-crime relationship -- Section 2: Governing non-participation -- 'Governing through unemployment' -- Habermas and Tyler on governance -- Governmentalisation and social control -- Section 3: 'Governing through crime' -- Part Four. Criminalising non-participation.

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