Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order

Description

This special 35th anniversary edition contains    the original, unchanged text that inspired a  generation, alongside two new chapters that explore the book's continued significance for today's readers. The Preface provides a brief retrospective account of the book's original structure, the rich ethnographic, intellectual and theoretical work that informed it, and the historical context in which it appeared. In the new Afterword, each of the authors takes up a specific theme from the original book and interrogates it in the light of current crises, perspectives and contexts.

Table of Contents                                                Preface to the Second Edition                            Introduction to the First Edition                            

PART I                                                                              The Social History of a Moral Panic                          The Origins of Social Control                                      The Social Production of News

PART II                                                                    Balancing Accounts: Cashing in on Handsworth      Orchestrating Public Opinion                                    Explanations and Ideologies of crime

PART III                                                                  Crime, Law and the State                                      The Law-and-Order Society: the Exhaustion of 'Consent'                                                                  The Law-and-Order Society: Towards the 'Exceptional State'

PART IV                                                                      The Politics of 'Mugging'                                           

Conclusion to the Second Edition: Reflections and new considerations.