"Villians" provides a rare insight into local and family traditions of petty crime. It looks at attitudes to crime and law enforcement, and the relationship of those attitudes to the culture in which they are expressed. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in police studies, ethnomethodology and women's studies.

Janet Foster

List of tables and illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Crime, culture, and community, 2 The Grafton Arms, 3 Tracing the steps: the evolution of attitudes, 4 Women, 5 Youth: like father like son, 6 Generations: past and future, Appendix: some considerations on methodology, References, Index