The politics of antisocial behaviour : amoral panics / Stuart Waiton.

"First published in 2008. Transferred to Digital Printing 2009."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

1. Introduction -- 2. From Moral Panics to Amoral Anxieties -- 3. Institutionalising Vulnerability: The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour 4. Diminishing the Subject -- 5: The Hamilton Curfew 6. Curfew Interviews: Analysing the Culture of Fear -- 7. The Meaning of {u2018}Antisocial Behaviour{u2019} -- 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of risk, the book develops Furedi{u2019}s understanding of a Culture of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state of affairs has arisen due to the collapse of traditional politics and morality, and equally, of radical alternatives to it. Central to Waiton's thesis is an explanation of the changing therapeutic relationship between the individual and society based on an understanding of diminished subjectivity and the newly emerged vulnerable public.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-183) and index.

Introduction -- Safety: the new 'absolute' -- The politics of vulnerability -- Diminished subjectivity -- From moral to amoral panics -- Asocial society.