Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical subjects of criminological investigation as youth, public order, drugs, policing and home security in their community. In doing so it moves in place from comfortable suburbs to hard pressed inner city estates, from the affluent to the impoverished, from old people watching the town where they grew up change around them to young in-comers who are part of that change. This is a book which will give all students of crime a rare and fascinating insight into how issues at the heart of contemporary law and order politics both nationally and internationally actually play out on the ground.
Author(s): Evi Girling, Ian Loader, Richard Sparks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 232
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Speaking of crime......Page 15
2 About Macclesfield......Page 34
3 The common places of crime......Page 57
4 Youth, disorder and inter-generational conflicts......Page 80
5 Anxieties of affluence in Prestbury village......Page 104
6 Policing and demands for order......Page 124
7 Some meanings and futures of security......Page 141
8 Conclusions......Page 161
Glossary of place-names......Page 177
Notes......Page 180
Bibliography......Page 200
Index......Page 210
