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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.
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The initial publication of Policing the Crisis was a key moment in the history of critical social science. The book was a prescient, extraordinary piece of critical scholarship. Over three decades on, its analytical clarity, and what it tells us about the exercise of power in an increasingly brutal, social environment, remains undiminished. The second edition, with additional material, is as relevant as its predecessor, a compelling read not only for students and academics, but also for anyone interested in the history of the UK since 1945." - Joe Sim, Professor of Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Praise for the first edition:
..". a remarkable tour de force which will provide an invaluable framework for any future work on crime, law and the state... It is a major achievement both in terms of its contribution to social theory and political debate" - British Journal of Sociology
..". probably one of the most important books to be written on race relations in Britain" - Race and Class
..". a penetrating study of post-war British society which not only has depth but is powerfully written... Policing the Crisis is an impressive combination of sophisticated theory and thorough concrete analysis" - Tribune


Praise for Policing the Crisis:
'A remarkable tour de force which will provide an invaluable framework for any future work on crime, law and the state... It is a major achievement both in terms of its contribution to social theory and political debate' - British Journal of Sociology
'Probably one of the most important books to be written on race relations in Britain' - Race and Class
'A penetrating study of post-war British society which not only has depth but is powerfully written... Policing the Crisis is an impressive combination of sophisticated theory and thorough concrete analysis' - Tribune




Praise for Policing the Crisis:
'A remarkable tour de force which will provide an invaluable framework for any future work on crime, law and the state... It is a major achievement both in terms of its contribution to social theory and political debate' - British Journal of Sociology
'Probably one of the most important books to be written on race relations in Britain' - Race and Class
'A penetrating study of post-war British society which not only has depth but is powerfully written... Policing the Crisis is an impressive combination of sophisticated theory and thorough concrete analysis' - Tribune

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Globe Press; 2nd edition (April 23, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1137007184
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1137007186
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.95 x 9.21 inches
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„Policing the Crisis“ is a monument for the highly creative intellectual atmosphere in the post-68 decade. The authors from the Centre of Cultural Studies at the Birmingham University (CCCS) prefer collective work to individual academic career. Scientific work is an intervention in an ongoing political conflict and university has left its ivory tower. Concrete research tries to apply and combine Structuralist methods and Gramsci’s theory of hegemony. The book is also a serious analysis of Thatcherism a year before Thatcher’s electoral victory.
In 1973 three boys were sentenced in Handsworth Birmingham to an exemplary and shocking sentence of ten and twenty years for having stabbed to death an elderly widower. The British public discussed “Mugging” in a case of “Moral Panic”. The term “mugging” was imported by the press from the US where it had the connotation of race riots. The practice of “mugging” did not differ so much from traditional British forms of street crime. The statistics do not proof a significant increase in street crimes in the years before 1972. The “Moral Panic” must be explained differently.
“Moral Panics” come into play when the deep structure of anxiety and traditionalism connects with the public definition of crime by the media and is mobilised.
The authors first analyse the news about “mugging” in the “Guardian” and the “Daily Mirror”. A theoretical chapter “Social Production of News” explains that the fit between the dominant ideas and professional media ideologies cannot simply be attributed to the fact that media are capital-owned or journalists are wicked, but must be explained by structural imperatives.
The authors try to identify these “deep structures” of professional news making. News producing relies upon the idea of a “consensus”. Crime has a high news value because crime is one of the boundaries of this social consensus. Court decisions are dramatized reassertions of the values of the society and the consensus-ideology.
The CCCS collective also analyses the letters to the editor. What follows is an analysis of the English ideology of crime and the deep structures of traditionalism. Crime allows the construction of a false unity out of the very different social conditions of the middle classes and the respectable working classes. The central components of this traditionalist “English” ideology are “Common Sense” and “Respectability”. Respectability” means different things for different social classes but forms the “cement of society” (Gramsci). Work is the guarantee for “respectability” for the “respectable working classes” and the difference between them and the “rough working classes”.
This traditional cross-class ideology comes together with a growing social anxiety and feeling of alienation. The “mugger” is the ideal scapegoat. Blacks and Asians are ready-made symbols for and symptoms of the sense of dislocation. What follows is a political analysis of the “moral panic” around “mugging” in the context of the origins of Thatcherism. The CCCS authors talk of a local “Lumpen-Bourgeoisie” which opposed the more cosmopolitan liberal fraction of the middle-classes.
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