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Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes

Name: Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199595037
Price: 1160.12 HKD
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Author: Susanne Karstedt; Stephen Farrall
ISBN: 9780199595037

Edited by Susanne Karstedt · Stephen Farrall

Oxford University Press February 2020

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780199595037
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: February 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes that are committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. The book delves into the 'grey zone' where illegal, unfair, unethical and 'shady' practices coalesce: from the retailers who see themselves as victims of customers who take unfair and often illegal advantage of generous offers, to the consumers sold 'useless' insurance and financial packages and 'defrauded' by 'small print' clauses.The authors outline the contours of the contemporary moral economy, driven and shaped by technological innovation as much as new economic policies, and ask, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?

1: (Im)moral economies, predatory societies: Into the realm of everyday crime

2: Change Regions and Changes in Normative Market-Cultures

3: Saints and Sinners: The Consumer as 'Victim' and 'Offender' in the Contemporary Marketplace

4: The Middling Sort

5: Communicating Crime, Risk & Blame: Constructing the Moral Climate of the Market

6: The Anxieties of the Market Place

7: Hitting Back: The Transmission Between Victimisation and Offending in the Marketplace

8: Market Changes and Market Anomie

9: Concluding Thoughts: The Till and the Ballot Box

Methodological appendices

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