ABSTRACT

Crime and intolerance occur when citizenship is thwarted; their causes lie in injustice, yet their effect is, inevitably, further injustice and violation of citizenship. The solution is to be found not in the resurrection of past stabilities, based on a nostalgia and a world that will never return, but on a new citizenship, a reflexive modernity which will tackle the problems of justice and community, of reward and individualism, which dwell at the heart of liberal democracy. 1