Law, order, and the authoritarian state
Subtitle: readings in critical criminology
By: edited by Phil Scraton.
Contributors: Scraton, Phil.
Publisher: Open University Press; OUP
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Milton Keynes; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.; Law enforcement -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Joe Sim, Phil Scraton, and Paul Gordon; value: Law, order, and the state of the left / Paul Gilroy and Joe Sim; value: The myth of Black criminality / Paul Gilroy; value: Community policing / Paul Gordon; value: Unreasonable force / Phil Scraton; value: Working for the clampdown : prisons and politics in England and Wales / Joe Sim; value: "Speaking ill of the dead" / Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick; value: The problem of men / Liz Kelly and Jill Radford; value: The criminalization of women / Kathryn Chadwick and Catherine Little; value: The normalization of special powers / Paddy Hillyard.