Overview
Critically engages students with learning exercises
Critically unpacks the global knife crime crisis, from authors with over a decade of experience
Draws on new empirical data on policing, popular narratives and industries benefiting from knife crime
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon. Yet it especially explores why the UK in particular has become so preoccupied by this form of interpersonal, often youthful, violence. The book explores knife crime in its global and historical context and examines crime patterns including the “second wave” of knife crime in Britain. It then incorporates new empirical data to explore key themes including: police responses, popular narratives, and the various interests benefiting from the 'knife crime industry'. It captures the “voices” of those impacted by knife crime including young people, community leaders, and youth work practitioners. Drawing on criminology, sociology, cultural studies and history, the book argues that the problem is firmly located at the intersection of a series of concerns about class, race, gender and generation that are a product of British history and its global past. It seeks to trace the several roots of the contemporary knife crime 'epidemic', ultimately to propose newer and alternative strategies for responding to it. It encourages a critical engagement with this subject, with the inclusion of some learning exercises for undergraduate students and above in the the social sciences, whilst also speaking to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Peter Squires is Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK. He is the author/editor of eleven books and has been involved in a number of research projects and commissions exploring knives and street weapons, gangs and youth violence prevention.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Knife Crime
Book Subtitle: Policing, Violence and Moral Panic?
Authors: Elaine Williams, Peter Squires
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83742-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83741-9Published: 02 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83742-6Published: 01 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 382
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Crime Control and Security, Criminal Behavior, Youth Culture