Abstract
Almost twenty-five years ago Jock Young described crime as a “moral barometer” of society—a “key indictor as to whether we are getting things right, achieving the sort of society in which people can live with dignity and without fear” (Young 1992, p. 34). Today, the pattern of violent crime around the world provides a particularly troubling reading of how far we are from “getting things right” in our contemporary global society, and it cries out for serious attention and action. But whether we will see that sustained attention, much less social action, on the scale we need in the coming years is by no means certain.
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Currie, E. (2016). The Violence Divide: Taking “Ordinary” Crime Seriously in a Volatile World. In: Matthews, R. (eds) What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57228-8_2
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