Policing the crisis: mugging, the state, and law and order/
Hall,Stuart
Policing the crisis: mugging, the state, and law and order/ Stuart Hall ... [et al.]. - London : Macmillan, 1978. - xii, 425 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical social studies .
Includes bibliographical references.
PART ONE
1. The Social History of a 'Moral Panic'
Enter: a mugging gone wrong
A chronology
The 'rising crime rate' equation
Career of a label
2. The Origins of Social Control
The full majesty of the law
Face-to-face control: the police as amplifiers
Origins of a police 'campaign'
3. The Social Production of News
Primary and secondary definers
The media in action: reproduction and transformation
The media and public opinion
Crime as news
Mugging and the media
Reciprocal relations
PART TWO
4. Balancing Accounts: Cashing in on Handsworth
Event: the Handsworth 'mugging"
Primary news
The editorials
The Sun
Features in the national press
The Birmingham papers
Conclusion: explanations and images in the media
5. Orchestrating Public Opinion
'Dear Sir": letters to the editor
Local channels
Private-public channels: the abusives
Public opinion and ideology
6. Explanations and Ideologies of Crime
Images of society
Roots of the traditionalist world view: common sense
Social anxiety
Explanations and ideologies
PA RT TH R EE
7. Crime, Law and the State
'Normal' crime and social crime
From 'control culture' to the state
The legal and political order of the state
Modes of hegemony, crisis in hegemony
8. The Law-and-Order Society: the Exhaustion of 'Consent'
n The changing shape of 'panics'
Post-war hegemony; constructing consensus
Consensus: the social-democratic variant
Descent to dissensus
1968/(1848): cataclysm - the nation divides
1969: the 'cultural revolution' and the turn into
authoritarianism
Working-class resistance: 'well grubbed, old mole!'
9. The Law-and-Order Society: Towards the Exceptional State'
1970: Selsdon Man - birth of the 'law-and-order society'
1971-2: the mobilisation of the law
1972: the moment of the 'mugger
Aftermath: living with the crisis
Inside the yellow submarine
PART FOUR
10. The Politics of 'Mugging'
Return of the repressed
The structures of 'secondariness'
Culture, consciousness and resistance
Black crime, black proletariat
The "wretched of the earth'
Harlem to Handsworth: bringing it all back home
0333220609 : 0333220617 (pbk.)
Mugging--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Social conditions
361.1 / HAL/P
Policing the crisis: mugging, the state, and law and order/ Stuart Hall ... [et al.]. - London : Macmillan, 1978. - xii, 425 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical social studies .
Includes bibliographical references.
PART ONE
1. The Social History of a 'Moral Panic'
Enter: a mugging gone wrong
A chronology
The 'rising crime rate' equation
Career of a label
2. The Origins of Social Control
The full majesty of the law
Face-to-face control: the police as amplifiers
Origins of a police 'campaign'
3. The Social Production of News
Primary and secondary definers
The media in action: reproduction and transformation
The media and public opinion
Crime as news
Mugging and the media
Reciprocal relations
PART TWO
4. Balancing Accounts: Cashing in on Handsworth
Event: the Handsworth 'mugging"
Primary news
The editorials
The Sun
Features in the national press
The Birmingham papers
Conclusion: explanations and images in the media
5. Orchestrating Public Opinion
'Dear Sir": letters to the editor
Local channels
Private-public channels: the abusives
Public opinion and ideology
6. Explanations and Ideologies of Crime
Images of society
Roots of the traditionalist world view: common sense
Social anxiety
Explanations and ideologies
PA RT TH R EE
7. Crime, Law and the State
'Normal' crime and social crime
From 'control culture' to the state
The legal and political order of the state
Modes of hegemony, crisis in hegemony
8. The Law-and-Order Society: the Exhaustion of 'Consent'
n The changing shape of 'panics'
Post-war hegemony; constructing consensus
Consensus: the social-democratic variant
Descent to dissensus
1968/(1848): cataclysm - the nation divides
1969: the 'cultural revolution' and the turn into
authoritarianism
Working-class resistance: 'well grubbed, old mole!'
9. The Law-and-Order Society: Towards the Exceptional State'
1970: Selsdon Man - birth of the 'law-and-order society'
1971-2: the mobilisation of the law
1972: the moment of the 'mugger
Aftermath: living with the crisis
Inside the yellow submarine
PART FOUR
10. The Politics of 'Mugging'
Return of the repressed
The structures of 'secondariness'
Culture, consciousness and resistance
Black crime, black proletariat
The "wretched of the earth'
Harlem to Handsworth: bringing it all back home
0333220609 : 0333220617 (pbk.)
Mugging--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Social conditions
361.1 / HAL/P