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Jock Young war ein britischer Soziologe und Kriminologe.

Der Sohn eines schottischen LKW-Fahrers machte das Bachelor- und das Master-Examen an der London School of Economics und wurde 1971 ebendort mit einer Arbeit über die gesellschaftliche Reaktion auf Drogenkonsum zum Ph.D. promoviert. In dieser Untersuchung entwickelte er den Begriff Moral Panic.Young war zuerst Soziologie-Professor an der Middlesex University dann an der University of Kent und lehrte schließlich an der City University of New York.

Ab etwa 1968 gehörte Young zu den wichtigsten Begründern einer marxistisch orientierten Kritischen Kriminologie in Großbritannien, die sich später zu einem sozialdemokratischen Neuen Realismus abschwächte. Später hat sich Young in seinen Forschungen der Cultural Criminology zugewandt. Wikipedia

✵ 4. März 1942 – 16. November 2013

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“Humanitarianism … occurs where a powerful group seeks to curb the activities of another group in their own better interests. They define them as a social problem and demands that action be taken to ameliorate their situation. This is complicated in the case of marihuana smoking, in so far as those individuals who make up the social problem would deny that any real problem exists at all.
I would argue that the humanitarian motive is exceedingly suspect; for it is often—though not necessarily—a rationalization behind which is concealed either a conflict of interests or moral indignation. For example Alex Comfort in The Anxiety Makers has charted the way in which the medical profession have repeatedly translated their moral indignation over certain ‘abuses’ into a clinically backed humanitarianism. For example, masturbation was once seen as causing psychosis, listlessness and impotence, and various barbaric clinical devices were evolved to prevent young people from touching their genital organs.”

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“The role of the police as amplifiers of deviancy,” Images of Deviance (1971), p. 31

“The drug user evokes an immediate gut reaction, while most criminals are immediately understandable in both motives and life style. For the criminal is merely cheating at the rules of a game which the policeman himself plays, whereas the bohemian is sceptical of the validity of the game itself and casts doubts on the world-view of both policeman and criminal.”

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“The role of the police as amplifiers of deviancy,” Images of Deviance (1971), p. 31

“Moral indignation, … the intervention into the affairs of others because we think them wicked, must necessarily be replaced by humanitarianism, which, using the language of therapy and healing, intervenes in what it perceives as the best interests and well-being of the individuals involved. Heresy or ungodliness become personal or social pathology.”

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“The role of the police as amplifiers of deviancy,” Images of Deviance (1971), p. 32

“I would suggest that there is a tendency in our society to cloak what amounts to moral or material conflicts behind the mantle of humanitarianism. This is because serious conflicts of interest are inadmissible in a political order which obtains its moral legitimacy by invoking the notion of a widespread consensus of opinion throughout all sections of the population.”

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“The role of the police as amplifiers of deviancy,” Images of Deviance (1971), p. 31

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