Rethinking Knife Crime: Policing, Violence and Moral Panic?

by Elaine Williams and Peter Squires

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon. Yet it especially explores why the UK in particular has become so preoccupied by this form of interpersonal, often youthful, violence. The book explores knife crime in its global and historical context and examines crime patterns including the "second wave" of knife crime in Britain. It then incorporates new empirical data...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030837416
• ISBN13: 9783030837419
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"