What is it about?
It is something of a challenge to compare the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Britain with the late Victorian period, yet this comparative approach brings insights and depth of understanding to what has been labelled as anti-social behaviour, though this term is not as recent as might be thought. The conclusions may serve as lessons for policy-makers today. The comparisons highlight the difficulty of defining the term anti-social behaviour.
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Why is it important?
An overview of a recent publication on anti-social behaviour containing twenty-five scholarly contributions by thirty academics in British Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Criminology, and Urban Studies. Recent legislation in Britain on the question of anti-social behaviour (Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003) is put into perspective by these case studies.
Perspectives
The book is organised under the themes of urban and public space, vulnerability and marginalization, recreation and leisure. Issues of empowerment are also central. This book is an example how such a comparative endeavour can succeed. The book as a whole is a masterly comparative overview It combines detailed scholarship on specific cases, showing how social history and sociology enlighten each other and contemporary questions, and, together with the bibliography, provides an excellent starting point for any further historical work on deviance and marginality.
Professor Susan Finding
Poitiers University
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This page is a summary of: Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. by
Sarah Pickard. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke2014. xx, 375 pp. £75.00., International Review of Social History, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859015000231.
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