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Britain's Dangerous Places
Beatrix Campbell
Uncovers a crisis of policing and politics in Britain in the 1990s
The explosion of car-related violence in cities as disparate as Oxford, Cardiff and Newcastle cannot be explained away in conventional stereotypes. The target was as much as anything the community itself. How did the firebombing and running fights relate to our new patterns of work, crime, consumerism, welfare, urban space and personal relationships? In her conversations with joyriders, police officers, community activists and 'ordinary' citizens Beatrix Campbell has probed the new forms of offending, defending and spending.
Beatrix Campbell's compelling enquiry exposes the personal and political at street level uncovering a crisis of policing and politics, gender and generation. It was adapted for the stage in 1997 by Bryony Lavery and starred Nicola McAuliffe playing all the characters.
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About Beatrix Campbell Beatrix Campbell is a print and television journalist, whose Wigan Pier Re-Visited, her rendezvous with George Orwell's classic, was the winner of the 1984 Cheltenham Festival Prize for Literature. In 1987 her book about the success of the Conservative Party among women, The Iron Ladies, was the winner of the Fawcett Prize; in 1988 she published Unofficial Secrets: The Cleveland Case; and in 1989 she was awarded the 300 Committee's Nancy Astor Campaigning Journalist of the Year award. She lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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