Crime and the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • David Downes

   Pages 1-9

3. ‘A Jekyll in the Classroom, a Hyde in the Street’: Queen Victoria’s Hooligans

   • Geoffrey Pearson

   Pages 10-35

4. A Tale of Two Estates

   • David Downes

   Pages 36-87

5. Youth Unemployment in Liverpool

   • Kenneth Roberts

   Pages 88-110

6. Women and Crime in the City

   • Elaine Player

   Pages 111-127

7. Two Stations: An Ethnographic Study of Policing in the Inner City

   • Janet Foster

   Pages 128-153

8. Policing in the Vernacular

   • Richard Hobbs

   Pages 154-181

9. The Age of the Drain Revisited

   • Terence Morris

   Pages 182-205

10. Housing, Community and Crime

    • Anne Power

    Pages 206-235

11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-245

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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.

• community
• crime
• delinquency
• employment
• Ethnographic Study
• memory
• state
• stress
• unemployment
• women
• work
• youth

• Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics, England

  David Downes

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