Philosophical Criminology by Millie Andrew

Author:Millie, Andrew [Millie, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social, Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9781447323709
Google: zjfpDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-09-21T04:29:46+00:00

Individualism – or a lack of regard for others – means it is okay for a single-occupancy car to be parked in a parent and child parking zone because you are just popping into the supermarket; or to push in front of someone queuing for a cinema ticket because you really must see the film; or to take someone’s car without permission because it is raining and you don’t want to get wet. My bubble, my rules, and to hell with the consequences for anyone else. Yet, if everyone is motivated entirely by self-interest then social order is impossible to achieve. According to Hechter and Horne (2009: 1), for social order to be possible, ‘[p]eople must be able to coordinate their actions and they must cooperate to attain common goals’; as the journalist Lynne Truss once observed, ‘all the important rules surely boil down to one: remember you are with other people; show some consideration’ (2005: 12, emphasis in original).1 The former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once famously declared:

… you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours. (in Woman’s Own magazine, 1987, cited in The Guardian, 2013)

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