Full Description
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
