The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity

'The Exclusive Society is another tour de force. I am deeply impressed by the rare combination of breath-taking erudition, mastery of the so-called fact of the matter and clarity of both purpose and presentation, all that topped up with supreme argumentative power, a mixture which has become over the years Jock Young's trade mark - few others can manage the same mix, though many have tried' - Zygmunt Bauman

In this major new work Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twentieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division.

He explores exclusion on three levels: economic exclusion from the labour market; social exclusion between people in civil society; and the ever-expanding exclusionary activities of the criminal justice system. Taking account of the massive dramatic structural and cultural changes that have beset our society and relating these to the quantum leap in crime and incivilities, Jock Young develops a major new theory based on a new citizenship and a reflexive modernity.

This exciting and highly innovative new book will appeal widely - to students and academics in sociology, criminology, cultural studies and social theory. It is a major new work by one of the most original academics writing today.