Chris Crowther ; foreword by Alan Walker ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.
New York, N.Y. :
St. Martin's Press,
2000.
xii, 264 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-250) and index.
Historical Perspectives on Poverty and Crime -- Debating Poverty and Crime in the US: from Moynihan to Murray -- Poverty and Crime in Britain -- From Theory to Practice -- The Police Policy Process in Modern Society -- Policing and the Power of Public Debate -- Policing Poor Communities -- The Changing Nature of Crime and the Workless Society.
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"Policing Urban Poverty provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the policy implications of social problems for the welfare state in general and the police service in particular, through an examination of the relationship between discourses on urban poverty, crime and disorder in Britain and America. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, the book adds to the sociological and historical analyses of these issues by considering their practical relevance at different times and in different places for police policy-makers."--Jacket.