Table of Contents

1. Deprivation and Depravity: A Review of the Theory.

2. Subverting the School Syllabus.

3. Challenges to Classroon Coercion.

4. School Strikes: Pupils and Parents Protest.

5. Larking About: Pranks and Parody.

6. Social Crime and Family Survival.

7. Street Gangs: Revolt, Rivalry and Racism.

8. Reformatories: Resistance to Repression.

Notes and References.

A Brief Guide to Oral History Material.

Further Reading.

Index.

About the Author

Stephen Humphries, formerly Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, is now a writer and broadcaster with a special interest in social history and oral tradition.