Villains
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780203393185
Subjects: Crime
Description: Villians provides a rare insight into local and family traditions of petty crime. It looks at attitudes to crime and law enforcement, and the relationship of those attitudes to the culture in which they are expressed.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Crime, culture, and community; The Grafton Arms; Tracing the steps: the evolution of attitudes; Women; Youth: like father like son; Generations: past and future; Appendix: some considerations on methodology; References; Index.