Abstract
The book addresses the multiplicity of subjective, cultural, political and institutional crisis that affect the contemporary society. After the transformation of the Fordist system, the decline of the welfare state and the financial crisis of 2008, not only poverty and marginalization but also other forms of tension and asynchronies have emerged within the modernity deconstructing the myth and narrative of growth and rational progress.
The book, through a sociological and interdisciplinary perspective, reviews the various aspects that the crisis has assumed within the modernity. Special attention is conferred on one side to the themes of racism, victims of the crisis such as homeless adults and young people, the phenomenon of populism and on the other to the new form of governmentality, the relationship between criminology and economic crisis through a research on white-collar workers and the question of the interdependence between social deviance and criminal law.