Stuart Hall et al. – Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order (1978)
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order (1978) by Stuart Hall and his co-authors is a groundbreaking work in critical criminology and cultural studies. In their analysis of the “mugging” discourse in 1970s Britain, the authors compellingly demonstrate how crime operates as a social construct—politically manufactured, amplified by the media, and ideologically