"35th anniversary edition"--pbk. Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages [402]-431) and index.
Contents:
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' -- The politics of 'mugging'.
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