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Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes
This book seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. It outlines the contours of the contemporary moral economy, and asks, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?
| Author(s) | By Stephen Farrall (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, University of Derby), Susanne Karstedt (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 328 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 6 Feb 2020 |
| Availability | POD |
This book seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. It outlines the contours of the contemporary moral economy, and asks, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?
1: (Im)moral economies, predatory societies: Into the realm of everyday crime 2: Change Regions and Changes in Normative Market-Cultures 3: Saints and Sinners: The Consumer as 'Victim' and 'Offender' in the Contemporary Marketplace 4: The Middling Sort
Stephen Farrall is a research professor in Criminology at the University of Derby. Previously he was Professor of Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, at Sheffield University. Farrall has also taught at Keele University, th
