Crime and the City: Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays - Tapa dura

Until the work of John Mays in the Liverpool of the early 1950s, delinquency was approached in Britain as a problem to be analyzed only by statistical inventories or psychological profiles. It was Mays' work which opened up what has since become familiar territory: delinquency in its place, neighbourhood and social setting. These essays reflect, in a variety of ways, the stress on the local, urban, social world conveyed by John Mays as essential for an understanding of crime and delinquency. The subjects covered include the problem and reaction in late Victorian England, Merseyside as the focus for unemployment and its bearing on understanding delinquency, female crime and policing in the East End and south of London. David Downes is the author of "The Delinquent Solution", "Gambling, Work and Leisure", "Deviant Interpretations" and "Understanding Deviants".