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Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and sociologist, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies.
Known for: Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
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Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
Originally published in 1978, this landmark study by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) examines the moral panic surrounding 'mugging' in 1970s Britain. The authors analyze how media, politics, and law enforcement constructed a crisis of law and order that reflected deeper social anxieties about race, class, and economic change. The book is a foundational text in cultural studies and criminology, offering a critical framework for understanding the relationship between crime, ideology, and state power.
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Crisis of Law and Order
As observers of British public life in the early 1970s, we watched the idea of a ‘law and order crisis’ take shape almost overnight. What had once been framed as discrete questions of crime control began to be narrated as evidence of a general breakdown in social discipline. Speeches by leading poli...
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The Construction of 'Mugging'
The term ‘mugging’ was imported almost wholesale from the United States, where it described a particularly violent form of street robbery. British police statistics had never used the term; they had long relied on categories such as robbery and assault with intent to rob. Yet beginning in the early ...
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Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and sociologist, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of British Cultural Studies.
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