Jock Young
Jock Young (born March 4, 1942 in Midlothian , † November 16, 2013 in New York City ) was a British sociologist and criminologist .
The son of a Scottish truck driver made the Bachelor - and Master -Examen at the London School of Economics and in 1971 the same place with a thesis on the social response to drug use ( The Drugtakers The Social Meaning of Drug Use. ) For Ph.D . PhD . In this research he developed the term moral panic .
Young was first a sociology professor at Middlesex University, then at the University of Kent, and finally taught at the City University of New York .
From around 1968 Young was one of the most important founders of a Marxist-oriented critical criminology (the so-called "New Criminology") in Great Britain, which later weakened to a social democratic New Realism ( left realism ). Young later turned to cultural criminology in his research .
Fonts (selection)
- The Drugtakers. The Social Meaning of Drug Use . MacGibbon and Kee, London 1971, ISBN 0-261-63228-0 .
- with Ian Taylor, Paul Walton: The New Criminology. For a Social Theory of Deviance . Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1973, ISBN 0-7100-7472-7 .
- with Ian Taylor, Paul Walton: Critical criminology . Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1975, ISBN 0-7100-8023-9 .
- with Roger Roger Matthews : Confronting crime . Sage Publications, London 1986, ISBN 0-8039-9731-0 .
- with Roger Matthews (Ed.): Rethinking Criminology: The Realist Debate . Sage Publications, London 1992, ISBN 0-8039-8620-3 .
- The Exclusive Society. Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity . Sage Publications, London 1999, ISBN 0-8039-8150-3 .
- with Roger Matthews (Ed.): The New Politics of Crime and Punishment. Willan Pub., Cullompton 2003, ISBN 1-903240-92-1 .
Web links
- University of Kent staff site ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Obituary , Criminologi a, blog by (former) teachers and students of the Institute for Criminological Social Research (IKS), accessed on July 25, 2016.
- Obituary , The Guardian , accessed July 25, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jane P. Bowers: John Jay Mourns the loss of Jock Young, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology. In: CUNY. November 19, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Keith Hayward and Roger Matthews: Jock Young. In: theguardian.com. December 4, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 .
- ^ Obituary at Criminologia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Young, Jock |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist and criminologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Midlothian |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2013 |
| Place of death | New York City |