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Crime and Social Change in Middle England Questions of Order in an English Town
226 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical subjects of criminological investigation as youth, public order, drugs, policing and home security in... Read more
Chapter 1 Speaking of crime; Chapter 2 About Macclesfield; Chapter 3 The common places of crime; Chapter 4 Youth, disorder and inter-generational conflicts; Chapter 5 Anxieties of affluence in Prestbury village; Chapter 6 Policing and demands for order; Chapter 7 Some meanings and futures of security; Chapter 8 Conclusions;
Biography
Evi Girling has a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology and is a Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University.,
Ian Loader is co-author of Cautionary Tales (Avebury, 1994) and author of Youth, Policing and Democracy (Macmillan, 1996).,
Richard Sparks is author of Television and the Drama of Crime (Open University Press, 1992) and co-author of Prisons and the Problem of Order (Oxford, 1996).
