Anti-social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Less than Polite People? Incivility, Ruffianism and Anti-Social Behaviour in Urban England, 1830–1900....Pages 3-17
Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late Victorian Britain....Pages 18-29
Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries....Pages 30-41
Anti-social Behaviour and ‘Civilizing’ Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras....Pages 42-52
From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now....Pages 53-64
Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 1880–1914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour....Pages 65-76
Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour....Pages 77-91
Anti-social Behaviour and the London ‘Riots’: Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social....Pages 92-101
The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour....Pages 102-111
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Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools....Pages 115-127
Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour: Plus ça Change....Pages 128-140
The Politics of ‘Anti-Social’ Behaviour within the ‘Troubled Families’ Programme....Pages 141-154
Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?....Pages 155-165
Is Nomadism the ‘Problem? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of ‘Anti-social’ Behaviour in Britain....Pages 166-178
The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being ‘Anti-social’ in Northern Ireland....Pages 179-191
Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the ‘Underclass Discourse’....Pages 192-202
Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public....Pages 203-213
Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the ‘Usual Suspects’....Pages 214-224
The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy....Pages 225-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
‘Roughs on the Turf and’ suburban Saturnalia’: Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses....Pages 239-250
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Victorian Respectability, ‘Anti-social Behaviour’ and the Music Hall, 1880–1900....Pages 251-262
Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870–79....Pages 263-273
Symbolism and the ‘Free Market’: The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present....Pages 274-284
Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group....Pages 285-295
Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder among Football Spectators....Pages 296-307
Conclusions....Pages 308-313
Back Matter....Pages 314-375