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Crime and social change in Middle England : questions of order in an English town / Evi Girling, Ian Loader, and Richard Sparks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Girling, Evi, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--England--Macclesfield.
- Crime.
- Crime prevention--England--Macclesfield.
- Crime prevention.
- Police--England--Macclesfield.
- Police.
- Social change--England--Macclesfield.
- Social change.
- Macclesfield (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Macclesfield (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 their community. In doing so it moves in place from comfortable suburbs to hard pressed inner city estates, from the affluent to the impoverished, from old people watching the town where they grew
- Contents:
- Cover; Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Speaking of crime: Towards a sociology of public sensibilities; 2 About Macclesfield: Social change and a sense of place; 3 The common places of crime: Crime in local talk; 4 Youth, disorder and inter-generational conflicts; 5 Anxieties of affluence in Prestbury village; 6 Policing and demands for order; 7 Some meanings and futures of security; 8 Conclusions: From east Cheshire to the wider world; Glossary of place-names; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67176-8
- 1-280-14052-6
- 0-203-97996-6
- 9780203979969
- OCLC:
- 437153508
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