Anti-social Behaviour in Britain

Chapter 1 A Less than Polite People? Incivility, Ruffianism and Anti-Social Behaviour in Urban England, 1830–1900

Chapter 2 Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late Victorian Britain

Chapter 3 Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries

Chapter 4 Anti-social Behaviour and ‘Civilizing’ Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras

Chapter 5 From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now

Chapter 6 Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 1880–1914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour

Chapter 7 Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour

Chapter 8 Anti-social Behaviour and the London ‘Riots’: Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social

Chapter 9 The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour

Chapter 10 Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools

Chapter 11 Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour: Plus ça Change

Chapter 12 The Politics of ‘Anti-Social’ Behaviour within the ‘Troubled Families’ Programme

Chapter 13 Anti-Social Behaviour among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?

Chapter 14 Is Nomadism the ‘Problem? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of ‘Anti-social’ Behaviour in Britain

Chapter 15 The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being ‘Anti-social’ in Northern Ireland

Chapter 16 Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the ‘Underclass Discourse’

Chapter 17 Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public

Chapter 18 Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the ‘Usual Suspects’

Chapter 19 The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy

Chapter 20 ‘Roughs on the Turf and’ suburban Saturnalia’: Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses

Chapter 21 Victorian Respectability, ‘Anti-social Behaviour’ and the Music Hall, 1880–1900

Chapter 22 Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870–79

Chapter 23 Symbolism and the ‘Free Market’: The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present

Chapter 24 Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group

Chapter 25 Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder among Football Spectators

Chapter 26 Conclusions