The myth of the "crime decline" : exploring change and continuity in crime and harm [1 Edition.] 9780815353935, 0815353936

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The myth of the "crime decline" : exploring change and continuity in crime and harm [1 Edition.]
 9780815353935, 0815353936

Table of contents :
Introduction: a picture in search of a new frame --
Constructing the statistical quilt for the comfortable dream: exploring the "international crime decline" --
Context is everything --
Invisible crimes and non-criminalised harms --
A view from life on the precipice --
Paradigmatic dominance and eyes wide shut : beyond positivism and constructionism --
Dreaming comfortably : theorising the "crime decline" and modernity's dream myth --
Conclusion --
References --
Index.

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