1st Edition
The Myth of the ‘Crime Decline’ Exploring Change and Continuity in Crime and Harm
Introduction: A Picture in Search of a New Frame
Chapter One: Constructing the Statistical Quilt for the Comfortable Dream: Exploring the ‘International Crime Decline’
Chapter Two: Context is Everything
Chapter Three: Invisible Crimes and Non-Criminalised Harms
Chapter Four: A View from Life on the Precipice
Chapter Five: Paradigmatic Dominance and Eyes Wide Shut: Beyond Positivism and Constructionism
Chapter Six: Dreaming Comfortably: Theorising the ‘Crime Decline’ and Modernity’s Dream Myth
Conclusion
Biography
Justin Kotzé is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Teesside University. He was awarded his PhD in 2016 and has previously published work in the fields of ex-prisoner reintegration and the historical sublimation of violence. Justin is the co-editor of Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm (2018).
