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Jock Young (4 March 1942 - 16 November 2013) is a British sociologist and criminologist and former professor at the Middlesex University. Along with Ian Taylor and Paul Walton, he wrote the groundbreaking book The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance in 1973.

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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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