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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “geoff pearson”
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  • A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management

    Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk

    by Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides a holistic and interdisciplinary focus on the legal regulation and policing of football violence and disorder in Britain. Anchored in ground-breaking ethnographic and participant-action research, the book combines a crowd psychology and socio-legal approach to critically explore the contemporary challenges of managing football crowds. It sets out the processes by which football ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Legal Responses to Football Hooliganism in Europe

    Edited by Anastassia Tsoukala, Geoff Pearson, Peter T.M. Coenen ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a number of perspectives on how different European states have responded to the phenomenon of football crowd disorder and violence, or “hooliganism”. It applies a comparative legal approach, with a particular focus on civil and human rights, to analyze domestic legislation, policing and judicial responses to the problem of “football hooliganism” in Europe.Academics and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Working Class Youth Culture

    Edited by Geoff Mungham, Geoff Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in. The contributors describe the real conditions of life for working-class youth; how they make sense of the world; and how we can understand their perspective. The subjects discussed include Teddy ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)

    An Historical and Sociological Study

    by Eric Dunning, Patrick J. Murphy, John Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Work, the Media and Public Relations (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Over the past few decades, relationships between social workers and the media have become increasingly challenging. Social workers feel aggrieved by media reporting of their profession and believe that journalists lack sufficient knowledge and experience of the social services to report matters adequately and sensitively, whilst some journalists have urged social workers to adopt a more proactive ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Thatcher's Children?

    Politics, Childhood And Society In The 1980s And 1990s

    by Dr Jane Pilcher, Jane Pilcher, Stephen Wagg ...
    That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provisions and political activism.; This text examines current social and political issues involving childhood. It looks at the impact of the "New Right" who talk of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Meanings of Violence

    Edited by Elizabeth A Stanko ...
    The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Unfinished Business

    Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland

    by Joe Moran ...
    With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Planning for Crime Prevention

    A Transatlantic Perspective

    by Ted Kitchen, Richard H Schneider ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and ... Read more

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  • Folk Devils and Moral Panics

    by Stanley Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New SocietyMods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen’s classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term ‘moral panic’ into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Feminism: The Ugly Truth

    by Mike Buchanan ...
    Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword: âMike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find a publisher for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Policing

    Edited by Tim Newburn ...
    This new edition of the Handbook of Policing updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive, but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point, combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD