Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town

by Richard Sparks, Ian Loader, Evi Girling, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415183367
• ISBN13: 9780415183369
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"