Stephen Crossley: 2 books
In Their Place
The Imagined Geographies of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories. The alleged behavioural failings of ‘poor people’ have attracted a great...
Troublemakers
The construction of ‘troubled families’ as a social problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal families. The programme aimed to ‘turn around’ the lives of the country’s most ‘troubled families’, at a time of austerity and wide-ranging...