Crime and the City : Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays

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. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-9 ‘A Jekyll in the Classroom, a Hyde in the Street’: Queen Victoria’s Hooligans....Pages 10-35 A Tale of Two Estates....Pages 36-87 Youth Unemployment in Liverpool....Pages 88-110 Women and Crime in the City....Pages 111-127 Two Stations: An Ethnographic Study of Policing in the Inner City....Pages 128-153 Policing in the Vernacular....Pages 154-181 The Age of the Drain Revisited....Pages 182-205 Housing, Community and Crime....Pages 206-235 Back Matter....Pages 236-245 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