Policing the Crisis : Mugging, the State and Law and Order (Paperback, 2 ed)

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.