Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by John Clarke, Chas Critcher, Stuart Hall, Brian Roberts, Tony Jefferson

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

John Clarke, Chas Critcher, Stuart Hall, Brian Roberts, Tony Jefferson

454 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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How and why did an activity familiar in London streets as long ago as the 1860s come to be described by the British press and police in August 1972 as ‘a frightening new strain of crime’? And if mugging—for this is the crime in question—was new in...

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