Download or read book Policing Urban Poverty written by C. Crowther and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This illuminating book focuses on the policy implications of discourses on poverty and crime in America and Britain. It draws on sociological theory and extensive empirical evidence, which show that in recent history senior police policy-makers have been involved in a struggle with their political masters in determining the most judicious means to tackle urban poverty and crime.