Anti-social behaviour in Britain : Victorian and contemporary perspectives /
Anti-social behaviour is a key issue in the social and political life of Britain in the twenty-first century, as were respectability and immorality in the Victorian era. Written by expert sociologists, historians, criminologists and political scientists, this interdisciplinary collection examines an...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES
- 1. A Less than Polite People? Incivility, Ruffianism and Anti-Social Behaviour in Urban England, 1830-1900; Neil Davie
- 2. Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late-Victorian Britain; Trevor Harris
- 3. Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space, Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries; Craig Johnstone
- 4. Anti-social Behaviour and 'Civilizing' Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras; John Flint and Ryan Powell
- 5. From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now; David Nash
- 6. Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 1880-1914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour; Constance Bantman
- 7. Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour; Sarah Pickard
- 8. Anti-social Behaviour and the London 'Riots': Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social; Christian Morgner
- 9. The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour; Andrew Millie
- PART II: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE VULNERABLE AND THE MARGINALIZED
- 10. Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools; Aure;lie Baudry
- 11. Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour; Anne Beauvallet
- 12. The Politics of 'Anti-Social' Behaviour within the 'Troubled Families' Programme; Sue Bond-Taylor
- 13. Anti-Social Behaviour Among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?; Jamie Harding and Adele Irving
- 14. Is Nomadism the 'Problem'? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of 'Anti-social' Behaviour in Britain; Colin Clark and Becky Taylor
- 15. The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being 'Anti-social' in Northern Ireland; Sine;ad Gormally
- 16. Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the 'Underclass Discourse'; Didier Lassalle
- 17. Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public; Stuart Waiton
- 18. Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the 'Usual Suspects'; Peter Squires
- 19. The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy; Emma Bell
- PART III: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, RECREATION AND LEISURE
- 20. 'Roughs on the Turf' and 'Suburban Saturnalia': Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses; Emmanuel Roudaut
- 21. Victorian Respectability, 'Anti-social Behaviour' and the Music Hall, 1880-1900; John Mullen
- 22. Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870-1879; An Vleugels
- 23. Symbolism and the 'Free Market': The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present; Deborah Talbot
- 24. Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group; Shane Blackman and Andrew Wilson
- 25. Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder Amongst Football Spectators; Mark James and Geoff Pearson.