Policing the Crisis : Mugging, the State and Law and Order / Stuart Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Stuart, author.

Clarke, John, author.

Critcher, Chas, author.

Jefferson, Tony, author.

Roberts, Brian, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Revelations.

Bloomsbury Revelations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Mugging.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interacting economic, social and political conflicts and crises were displaced onto the problem of crime. Now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this re-issue of the 35th Anniversary Edition includes a personal note from the authors about their co-author, the late Stuart Hall, and a brand new foreword by Michael Denning.

Contents:

Personal note from the Authors Foreword by Michael Denning 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

ISBN:

1-350-53467-6

OCLC:

1569777566