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Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent (2017)
Book Chapter
Mahoney, I., & Kearon, T. (2018). Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent. In Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective (77-100). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63172-1_4

This chapter draws on a series of interviews with young working-class men in a former industrial heartland in the English Midlands. It explores the responses, coping strategies and alternative narratives of self that were mobilized by these men in th... Read More about Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent.

The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order (2017)
Book Chapter
Kearon, T. (2017). The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order. In Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology (255-267). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713281-20

This chapter takes as its central theme the processes of re-imposition of social order in the aftermath of a series of high-profile riots that occurred in several English cities in 2011. The focus here is not on the possible motivations of the rioter... Read More about The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order.