Policing the crisis : mugging, the state, and law and order / Stuart Hall, Professor Emeritus, The Open University, UK, Chas Critcher, Visiting Professor in Media and Communications, Swansea University, UK, Tony Jefferson, Professor Emeritus, Keele University, UK, John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University, UK, Brian Roberts, Visiting Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, UK.

"35th anniversary edition"--Spine.

First edition was published: New York : Holmes & Meier, 1979.

Previously cataloged under title.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-431) and index.

Preface to the Second Edition.- Introduction to the First Edition.- PART I.- The Social History of a Moral Panic.- The Origins of Social Control.- The Social Production of News.- PART II.- Balancing Accounts: Cashing in on Handsworth.- Orchestrating Public Opinion.- Explanations and Ideologies of crime.- PART III.- Crime, Law and the State.- The Law-and-Order Society: the Exhaustion of 'Consent'.- The Law-and-Order Society: Towards the 'Exceptional State'.- PART IV.- The Politics of 'Mugging'.- Conclusion to the Second Edition: Reflections and new considerations.

This special 35th anniversary edition contains the original, unchanged text that inspired a generation, alongside two new chapters that explore the book's continued significance for today's readers.