Policing the Crisis

This classic text is still one of the most influential and compelling books in the social sciences. Includes sections on The social history of a 'moral panic' -- The origins of social control -- The social production of news -- Balancing accounts : cashing in on Handsworth -- Orchestrating public opinion -- Explanations and ideologies of crime -- Crime, law and the state -- The law-and-order society : the exhaustion of 'consent' -- The law-and-order society : towards the 'exceptional state' and 'The politics of 'mugging'.