Policing the crisis: mugging, the state, and law and order/
Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1980.
- xii, 425 p. ; 24 cm.
- (Critical social studies) .
1. The social history of a 'Moral Panic' -- 2. The origins of social control -- 3. The social production of news -- 4. Balancing accounts: cashing in on Handsworth -- 5. Orchestrating public opinion -- 6. Explanation and idelogies of crime -- 7. Crime, law and the State -- 8. The law-and-order society: the exhaustion of 'consent' -- 9. The law-and-order society: towards the 'exceptional state' -- 10. The politics of 'mugging'
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Social conditions--Great Britain Mugging Discrimination in criminal justice administration