Precarious Life - Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town

A Precarious Life offers an internal view of conflict among one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Britain. The book brings to view the disjuncture that exists between top-down theories that guide the criminal law, and norms that make better sense of the social world navigated by residents on an over-criminalized estate.

List of contents

• Introduction: Back to the Rough Ground


• 1: From Schoolyards to Factory Floors


• 2: The Necessity of Community


• 3: Violence


• 4: Thin Blue Line


• 5: Foreigners


• 6: A Violence Continuum


• 7: Moral Dilemmas


• 8: Questions of Moral Motivation


• Conclusion: Life After Loss

About the author

Roxana Willis is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics. Before joining the LSE, Willis completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Junior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg; a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford; and a Junior Research Fellowship in Law at University College, Oxford. Willis holds a DPhil in Law (Oxon), an LLM in International Economic Law (SOAS, London), and an LLB in Law with European Legal Studies (University of Kent and Charles University, Prague).

Summary

A Precarious Life offers an internal view of conflict among one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Britain. The book brings to view the disjuncture that exists between top-down theories that guide the criminal law, and norms that make better sense of the social world navigated by residents on an over-criminalized estate.

Product details

• Authors: Roxana Willis, Roxana (Assistant Professor Willis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2023
• EAN: 9780198855149
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885514-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, Legal aspects of criminology, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal procedure, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law