The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime

ISBN 10: 0415672368 / ISBN 13: 9780415672368

Published by Routledge, 2011

About this Item

Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend is juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since the early the 1950s. This book examines several aspects of leisure that are vulnerable to crime. Editor(s): Jones, Carol; Barclay, Elaine; Mawby, Rob. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 26 black & white tables, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JKVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2011. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415672368
• ISBN 13: 9780415672368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since the early the 1950s. Acquisitive crimes have been facilitated with the development of more portable and valuable commodities; some activities, such as drink driving and disorder, have now been socially defined as crimes and are more readily identified through new technology such as the increasing use of CCTV.

The Problem of Pleasure covers them all. The purpose of this book is to inform and enlighten a range of readers, whose interests may be academic or commercial on possible crime events and modus operandi of criminals. The book has a global perspective, bringing together leading academics from the UK, the US, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand who examine several aspects of leisure that are vulnerable to crime, from illegal hunting to street racing, as well as the impact of crime upon tourists and the tourism industry.

This book will be a key text for students of tourism and leisure as well as criminology and sociology; people working in the tourism and recreation industry; policy makers and the police.

About the Author

Carol Jones and Rob Mawby are criminologists associated with the University of Gloucestershire, UK .

Elaine Barclay is a criminologist at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.