Policing Urban Poverty
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780312228460
Subjects: Crime Prevention; Police-Community Relations; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Criminology; Criminology; Crime; Poverty; Urban poor
Description: "Policing Urban Poverty provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the policy implications of social problems for the welfare state in general and the police service in particular, through an examination of the relationship between discourses on urban poverty, crime and disorder in Britain and America.

Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, the book adds to the sociological and historical analyses of these issues by considering their practical relevance at different times and in different places for police policy-makers."--BOOK JACKET.