Thatcherism, Crime and the Legacy of the Social and Economic 'Storms' of the 1980s
Thatcherism, Crime and the Legacy of the Social and Economic 'Storms' of the 1980s
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撒切尔主义、犯罪以及 20 世纪 80 年代社会和经济“风暴”的遗产
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10.1111/hojo.12202
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2017
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FARRALL S
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利用古典社会学关于越轨和社会结构的见解(特别是涂尔干和默顿)，我们探索了20世纪80年代初始于英国东部的社会和经济变化的持久影响。在随后的20年里，英国经历了一段激进的经济重组时期，导致了持久的社会变革。我们试图评估这些社会和经济综合进程在国家层面产生的影响，我们将其称为社会和经济“风暴”。在这样做的过程中，我们评估并最终捍卫这种概念化的启发式效用，考虑到这种社会和经济风暴(单独和集体)在多大程度上削弱了个人之间、家庭内部和家庭之间以及跨社区的联系。我们使用经济和社会变化的替代指标，结合有记录的犯罪统计数据，来探索这些过程可能在多大程度上与受害比率有关。我们发现，犯罪与这些宏观层面的“风暴”有关，尽管最终它们是由经济变量驱动的。我们的分析表明，政治决策如何影响犯罪率的长期趋势。
Using insights from the classical sociology of deviance and social structure (notably Durkheim and Merton) we explore the enduring impact of the social and economic changes which started in the UK in the early 1980s. In the two subsequent decades the UK went through a period of radical economic restructuring, leading to lasting social change. We seek to gauge the effect of these combined social and economic processes, which we label social and economic ‘storms’, at the national level. In so doing we assess, and ultimately defend, the heuristic utility of this conceptualisation, considering the extent to which such social and economic storms (individually and collectively) weakened bonds between individuals, within and between families, and across communities. We use proxy measures of economic and social changes in combination with recorded crime statistics to explore the degree to which such processes might be associated with victimisation rates. We find that crime was related to these macro‐level ‘storms’, although ultimately they were driven by economic variables. Our analyses show how political decision making can shape long‐term trends in crime rates.