Left realism, local crime surveys and policing of racial minorities: a further analysis of data from the first sweep of the Islington Crime Survey

The inner-city riots of 1980s Britain provoked an important set of debates in the progressive criminological literature about police accountability and the policing of racial minorities. Two main oppositional political strategies emerged. Following the pioneering work of Hall et al. (1978) some Brit...

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Main Author: MacLean, Brian 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1993
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 1993, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-86
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