Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain (PDF)

Constance Bantman, University of Surrey, UK
Aurélie Baudry, Researcher, France
Anne Beauvallet, Toulouse-Le Mirail University, France
Emma Bell, Université de Savoie, France
Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christchurch University, UK
Sue Bond-Taylor, University of Lincoln, UK
Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Neil Davie, Lyons Lumière University, France

John Flint, University of Sheffield, UK
Sinéad Gormally, University of Hull, UK
Jamie Harding, Northumbria University, UK
Trevor Harris, University of Tours, France
Adele Irving, Northumbria University, UK
Mark James, Northumbria University School of Law, UK
Craig Johnstone, University of Brighton, UK
Didier Lassalle, University of Paris-Est-Créteil, France
Andrew Millie, Edge Hill University, UK
Christian Morgner, University of Leicester, UK
John Mullen, University of Paris-Est-Creteil, France
David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Ryan Powell, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Emmanuel Roudaut, Institut d'Études Politiques, France
Peter Squires, University of Brighton, UK
Deborah Talbot, Open University, UK
Becky Taylor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Stuart Waiton, Abertay University, UK
Andy Wilson, Nottingham Trent University, UK
An Vleugels, Birkbeck College, London, UK

"This is a gem of a book. It is an impressive collection of essays that successfully problematizes and historicizes anti-social behaviour. Moreover, it is a truly interdisciplinary endeavour - and it is all the stronger as a result. It is theoretically-informed, packed full of fascinating case studies and has much to offer historians, criminologists, and sociologists, not to mention those working in the fields of police studies, politics and social policy. It casts fresh light on the history of anti-social behaviour in the Victorian era as well as underlining the complex nature of the phenomenon as it manifests itself at the start of the twenty-first century." - Andy Croll, University of South Wales, UK

"The meanings attributed to the contested term 'anti-social behaviour', the governance and regulation of the phenomenontogether with its derivation and aetiology, are questions that invoke lively debates. By historically situating such debates and by tracing the contextual continuities and changes that frame understandings of, and responses to,'anti-social behaviour', Pickard's edited volume makes a major scholarly contribution." - Professor Barry Goldson, Charles Booth Chair of Social Science, University of Liverpool, UK

"This is a comprehensive exploration of conduct attracting censure and a variety of controls in Victorian and contemporary Britain. The parallels and differences between the two eras are well drawn. This is the most complete survey of perceptions of anti-social behaviour and action to curb it now available, filling in detail gaps in previous overviews. In each era marginal groups are targeted and a wide range of behaviours are seen as 'anti-social'." - Elizabeth Burney, University of Cambridge, UK

"One of the major contributions of the book is that it provides critical insight into the continuities and discontinuities between the Victorian and contemporary eras. This includes the subjectivity of 'anti-social behaviour' and