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Policing the crisis : mugging, the state, and law and order

Title
Policing the crisis : mugging, the state, and law and order / Stuart Hall [and others].
Publication
London : Macmillan, 1978.

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Additional Authors
Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014.
Description
xii, 425 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Critical social studies
Uniform Title
Critical social studies
Subject
  • Since 1945
  • Mugging > Great Britain
  • Social history
  • Violence
  • Crime
  • Violence [MESH]
  • Crime [MESH]
  • Social Conditions [MESH]
  • Social Conditions
  • Violence
  • Crime
  • social history
  • violence
  • crimes (events)
  • Social history
  • Mugging
  • Social conditions
  • Gesellschaft
  • Kriminalität
  • Sozialpolitik
  • Straßenkriminalität
  • Straßenraub
  • Agressie
  • Crises
  • Overheidsgezag
  • Infractions contre la personne > Grande-Bretagne
  • Crimes et criminels > Grande-Bretagne > Opinion publique
  • Crimes et criminels dans les médias > Grande-Bretagne
  • Criminalité > Sociologie > Grande-Bretagne
  • Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
  • Great Britain
  • Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 1945- ..
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. The social history of a 'Moral Panic' -- 2. The origins of social control -- 3. The social production of news -- 4. Balancing accounts: cashing in on Handsworth -- 5. Orchestrating public opinion -- 6. Explanation and idelogies of crime -- 7. Crime, law and the State -- 8. The law-and-order society: the exhaustion of 'consent' -- 9. The law-and-order society: towards the 'exceptional state' -- 10. The politics of 'mugging'
ISBN
  • 0333220609
  • 9780333220603
  • 0333220617
  • 9780333220610
LCCN
78315882
OCLC
  • ocm04023554
  • 4023554
  • SCSB-258704
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library