Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.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; Aur?lie 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' Bel³Q