Crime and Modernity

Crime and Modernity represents a significant contribution to the ability of criminology and the sociology of crime to confront the dilemmas and controversies of the twenty first century. In Crime and Modernity, John Lea develops a broad historical and sociological overview relating the rise and fall of effective crime control to different types of social structures. A major feature of Crime and Modernity is its wide scope and imaginative application of historical and theoretical perspectives on modernisation and capitalist social development to the contemporary problems of controlling a wide variety of crime. It represents a significant contribution to the ability of criminology and the sociology of crime to confront the dilemmas and controversies of the twenty first century.