Critical social studies

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Policing the Crisis

by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Nathaniel Clarke, and Brian Roberts

Published 24 May 1978

This special 35th anniversary edition contains the original, unchanged text that inspired a generation, alongside two new chapters that explore the book's continued significance for today's readers. The Preface provides a brief retrospective account of the book's original structure, the rich ethnographic, intellectual and theoretical work that informed it, and the historical context in which it appeared. In the new Afterword, each of the authors takes up a specific theme from the original book and interrogates it in the light of current crises, perspectives and contexts.