Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order

This special 35th anniversary edition contains the original unchanged text that inspired a generation alongside two new chapters that explore the books continued significance for todays readers The Preface provides a brief retrospective account of the books original structure the rich ethnographic intellectual and theoretical work that informed it and the historical context in which it appeared In the new Afterword each of the authors takes up a specific theme from the original book and interrogates it in the light of current crises perspectives and contexts