Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain [electronic resource] : Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives /
Pickard, Sarah.author.
Pickard, Sarah,editor of compilation.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 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; 2 Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late Victorian Britain; 3 Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries; 4 Anti-social Behaviour and 'Civilizing' Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras
5 From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now6 Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 1880-1914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour; 7 Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour; 8 Anti-social Behaviour and the London 'Riots': Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social; 9 The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour; Part II: Anti-social Behaviour, the Vulnerable and the Marginalized
10 Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools11 Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour: Plus ça Change; 12 The Politics of 'Anti-Social' Behaviour within the 'Troubled Families' Programme; 13 Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?; 14 Is Nomadism the 'Problem'? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of 'Anti-social' Behaviour in Britain
15 The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being 'Anti-social' in Northern Ireland16 Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the 'Underclass Discourse'; 17 Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public; 18 Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the 'Usual Suspects'; 19 The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy; Part III: Anti-social Behaviour, Recreation and Leisure; 20 'Roughs on the Turf' and 'Suburban Saturnalia': Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses; 21 Victorian Respectability, 'Anti-social Behaviour' and the Music Hall, 1880-1900
22 Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870-7923 Symbolism and the 'Free Market': The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present; 24 Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group; 25 Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder among Football Spectators; Conclusions; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Social history.
Political sociology.
Great Britain—Politics and government.
Criminology.
Sociology.
Crime and Society.
Social History.
Political Sociology.
British Politics.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Sociology, general.