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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Anti-social behaviour in Britain |
| Subtitle of host publication | Victorian and contemporary perspectives |
| Editors | Sarah Pickard |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 203-213 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137399304 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2014 |
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Antisocial behaviour and the vulnerable public. / Waiton, Stuart.
Anti-social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and contemporary perspectives. ed. / Sarah Pickard. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 203-213.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - Antisocial behaviour and the vulnerable public
AU - Waiton, Stuart
N1 - This is the author's original manuscript, which has not been edited. It is embargoed until November 2017. The definitive, published, version of record is available from: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/antisocial-behaviour-in-britain-sarah-pickard/?K=9781137399304. Published version © Palgrave Macmillan. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Key to understanding the emergence of antisocial behavior legislation in the UK is the concept of diminished subjectivity, the emergence of an insecure elite guided by a precautionary principle of safety, and the construction and engagement with a universalised vulnerable public. As such this chapter attempts to explain how the demoralisation of the Cold War political framework resulted in a new relationship developing between previously political and moral subjects and the (post) modern elite. Central to this is the transformation of the robust liberal subject into a newly conceptualised vulnerable individual. Helped by the decline of moral conservatism and the collapse of political radicalism the active individual and collective were reimagined as victims of crime and vulnerable groups. Once reconceptualised in this way, the more fragmented public of the post-Cold War world, were engaged with through the emotion of fear and the therapeutic state stepped in to regulate an increasing array of behaviours, actions and speech that were previously not seen as criminal or in need of state control. The outcome is the institutionalisation of an asocial, fragile character type as the new norm for society by an insecure state that keeps us all at a safe distance from one another.
AB - Key to understanding the emergence of antisocial behavior legislation in the UK is the concept of diminished subjectivity, the emergence of an insecure elite guided by a precautionary principle of safety, and the construction and engagement with a universalised vulnerable public. As such this chapter attempts to explain how the demoralisation of the Cold War political framework resulted in a new relationship developing between previously political and moral subjects and the (post) modern elite. Central to this is the transformation of the robust liberal subject into a newly conceptualised vulnerable individual. Helped by the decline of moral conservatism and the collapse of political radicalism the active individual and collective were reimagined as victims of crime and vulnerable groups. Once reconceptualised in this way, the more fragmented public of the post-Cold War world, were engaged with through the emotion of fear and the therapeutic state stepped in to regulate an increasing array of behaviours, actions and speech that were previously not seen as criminal or in need of state control. The outcome is the institutionalisation of an asocial, fragile character type as the new norm for society by an insecure state that keeps us all at a safe distance from one another.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781137399304
SP - 203
EP - 213
BT - Anti-social behaviour in Britain
A2 - Pickard, Sarah
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -