Beschreibung:
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.
"A Jekyll in the Classroom, a Hyde in the Street" - Queen Victoria's hooligans, Geoffrey Pearson; a tale of two estates, Anthony Bottoms, R.I.Mawby et al; youth unemployment in Liverpool, Kenneth Roberts; two stations - an ethnographic study of policing in the inner city, Janet Foster; policing in the vernacular, Richard Hobbs; women and crime in the city, Elaius Player; the age of the drain revisited, Terence Morris; housing, community and crime, Anne Power; John Barron Mays (1914-87) - a bibliography.