Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder: A Comparative and Historical Approach - Hardcover

Waddington, Dr David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415079136 ISBN 13: 9780415079136

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

In a comparative study drawing on material from the United States and Britain, David Waddington examines how various types of industrial, political, urban and sectarian disorder occur. Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder critically appraises the theoretical approaches to understanding public disorder and contributes to the ongoing debates on police methods, police accountability and the controversial role of the media.

About this title

About the Author:

David Waddington is Senior Lecturer in Communications Studies at Sheffield City Polytechnic. He is author, with Karen Jones and Chas Critcher, of Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder (1989) by Routledge.

Review:

"Waddington has largely succeeded in producing an accessible introduction to these issues. In many respects it is currently the best critical analysis of public disorder produced by a British social scientist."
-"Times Higher Education Supplement
"Public order in a modern society is fragile--and is vulnerable to ill-considered government policies. In "Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder Waddington constructs a powerful indictment of the callous incompetence of the Thatcher administrations in the field of law and order. This book is a major contribution to the literature of civil disorder."
-John Benyon, University of Leicester

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0415079136
• ISBN 13: 9780415079136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254