This is a book which will give all students of crime a rare insight into how issues at the heart of contemporary law and order politics both nationally and internationally play out on the ground.

Chapter 1 Speaking of crime; Chapter 2 About Macclesfield; Chapter 3 The common places of crime; Chapter 4 Youth, disorder and inter-generational conflicts; Chapter 5 Anxieties of affluence in Prestbury village; Chapter 6 Policing and demands for order; Chapter 7 Some meanings and futures of security; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

Evi Girling has a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology and is a Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University.,
Ian Loader is co-author of Cautionary Tales (Avebury, 1994) and author of Youth, Policing and Democracy (Macmillan, 1996).,
Richard Sparks is author of Television and the Drama of Crime (Open University Press, 1992) and co-author of Prisons and the Problem of Order (Oxford, 1996).