Full 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.
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.
