This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it.

Autorentext
Constance Bantman, University of Surrey, UK Aurélie Baudry, Researcher, France Anne Beauvallet, Toulouse-Le Mirail University, France Emma Bell, Université de Savoie, France Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christchurch University, UK Sue Bond-Taylor, University of Lincoln, UK Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland, UK Neil Davie, Lyons Lumière University, France John Flint, University of Sheffield, UK Sinéad Gormally, University of Hull, UK Jamie Harding, Northumbria University, UK Trevor Harris, University of Tours, France Adele Irving, Northumbria University, UK Mark James, Northumbria University School of Law, UK Craig Johnstone, University of Brighton, UK Didier Lassalle, University of Paris-Est-Créteil, France Andrew Millie, Edge Hill University, UK Christian Morgner, University of Leicester, UK John Mullen, University of Paris-Est-Creteil, France David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School, UK Ryan Powell, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Emmanuel Roudaut, Institut d'Études Politiques, France Peter Squires, University of Brighton, UK Deborah Talbot, Open University, UK Becky Taylor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Stuart Waiton, Abertay University, UK Andy Wilson, Nottingham Trent University, UK An Vleugels, Birkbeck College, London, UK

Inhalt
Introduction PART I: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES 1. A Less than Polite People? Incivility, Ruffianism and Anti-Social Behaviour in Urban England, 18301900; Neil Davie 2. Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late-Victorian Britain; Trevor Harris 3. Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space, Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries; Craig Johnstone 4. Anti-social Behaviour and 'Civilizing' Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras; John Flint and Ryan Powell 5. From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now; David Nash 6. Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 18801914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour; Constance Bantman 7. Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour; Sarah Pickard 8. Anti-social Behaviour and the London 'Riots': Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social; Christian Morgner 9. The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour; Andrew Millie PART II: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE VULNERABLE AND THE MARGINALIZED 10. Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools; Aurélie Baudry 11. Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour; Anne Beauvallet 12. The Politics of 'Anti-Social' Behaviour within the 'Troubled Families' Programme; Sue Bond-Taylor 13. Anti-Social Behaviour Among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?; Jamie Harding and Adele Irving 14. Is Nomadism the 'Problem'? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of 'Anti-social' Behaviour in Britain; Colin Clark and Becky Taylor 15.The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being 'Anti-social' in Northern Ireland; Sinéad Gormally 16.Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the 'UnderclassDiscourse'; Didier Lassalle 17 . Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public; Stuart Waiton 18. Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the 'Usual Suspects'; Peter Squires 19. The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy; Emma Bell PART III: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, RECREATION AND LEISURE 20 . 'Roughs on the Turf' and 'Suburban Saturnalia': Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses; Emmanuel Roudaut 21. Victorian Respectability, 'Anti-social Behaviour' and the Music Hall, 18801900; John Mullen 22. Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 18701879; An Vleugels 23. Symbolism and the 'Free Market': The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present; Deborah Talbot 24. Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group; Shane Blackman and Andrew Wilson 25.Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder Amongst Football Spectators; Mark James and Geoff Pearson