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Crime and the City

Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. David Downes

    1. Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics, England

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • David Downes
    Pages 1-9

  3. ‘A Jekyll in the Classroom, a Hyde in the Street’: Queen Victoria’s Hooligans

    • Geoffrey Pearson
    Pages 10-35

  4. A Tale of Two Estates

    • David Downes
    Pages 36-87

  5. Youth Unemployment in Liverpool

    • Kenneth Roberts
    Pages 88-110

  6. Women and Crime in the City

    • Elaine Player
    Pages 111-127

  7. Two Stations: An Ethnographic Study of Policing in the Inner City

    • Janet Foster
    Pages 128-153

  8. Policing in the Vernacular

    • Richard Hobbs
    Pages 154-181

  9. The Age of the Drain Revisited

    • Terence Morris
    Pages 182-205

  10. Housing, Community and Crime

    • Anne Power
    Pages 206-235

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-245
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These essays reflect the stress on the local, urban, social world conveyed by John Mays as essential for an understanding of crime and delinquency. It was Mays' work which opened up what has since become familiar territory: delinquency in its place, neighbourhood and social setting.

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  • Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics, England

    David Downes

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