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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a unique comparison of the methods which have been employed by governments to control it.

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Introduction PART I: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES 1. A Less than Polite People? Incivility, Ruffianism and Anti-Social Behaviour in Urban England, 1830-1900; Neil Davie 2. Anti-social City: Science and Crime in late-Victorian Britain; Trevor Harris 3. Greater Expectations: Intolerance and Control of Public Space, Anti-social Behaviour in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries; Craig Johnstone 4. Anti-social Behaviour and ´Civilizing´ Regulation in the British City: Comparing Victorian and Contemporary Eras; John Flint and Ryan Powell 5. From Scurrilous Periodical to the Public Platform. Policing Blasphemers and Anti-social Behaviour: Constructing the Public Peace Then and Now; David Nash 6. Anarchists, Authorities and the Battle for Public Space, 1880-1914: Recasting Political Protest as Anti-social Behaviour; Constance Bantman 7. Keep Them Kettled! Student Protests, Policing and Anti-social Behaviour; Sarah Pickard 8. Anti-social Behaviour and the London ´Riots´: Social Meaning-making of the Anti-social; Christian Morgner 9. The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour; Andrew Millie PART II: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, THE VULNERABLE AND THE MARGINALIZED 10. Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools; Aurélie Baudry 11. Truancy and Anti-social Behaviour in England in the late Victorian Era and under New Labour; Anne Beauvallet 12. The Politics of ´Anti-Social´ Behaviour within the ´Troubled Families´ Programme; Sue Bond-Taylor 13. Anti-Social Behaviour Among Homeless People: Assumptions or Reality?; Jamie Harding and Adele Irving 14. Is Nomadism the ´Problem´? The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers as Perpetrators of ´Anti-social´ Behaviour in Britain; Colin Clark and Becky Taylor 15.The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being ´Anti-social´ in Northern Ireland; Sinéad Gormally 16.Policing the Margins: Anti-Social Behaviour and the ´Underclass Discourse´; Didier Lassalle 17 . Anti-social Behaviour and the Vulnerable Public; Stuart Waiton 18. Anti-Social Behaviour: Marginality, Intolerance and the ´Usual Suspects´; Peter Squires 19. The Anti-sociality of Anti-social Behaviour Policy; Emma Bell PART III: ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, RECREATION AND LEISURE 20 . ´Roughs on the Turf´ and ´Suburban Saturnalia´: Anti-social Behaviour on Victorian Racecourses; Emmanuel Roudaut 21. Victorian Respectability, ´Anti-social Behaviour´ and the Music Hall, 1880-1900; John Mullen 22. Drunkenness, Anti-social Behaviour, Class, Gender and Alcohol in the Making of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1870-1879; An Vleugels 23. Symbolism and the ´Free Market´: The Regulation of Alcohol and Anti-social Behaviour Past and Present; Deborah Talbot 24. Psychotic (e)states: Where Anti-social Behaviour is Merged with Recreational Drug Use to Signify the Social Problem Group; Shane Blackman and Andrew Wilson 25.Regulating Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder Amongst Football Spectators; Mark James and Geoff Pearson

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