ABSTRACT
In the massive Waterstones bookstore in the city of Manchester, England, the ground floor display area was rearranged in 1995 so as to accommodate, right at the front of the store, several hundred new titles, on topics like Serial Murderers and Sexual Crimes of the Twentieth Century. In the mid-1980s, for example, as David Kelley observed, there was a sudden explosion of such texts of widely differing quality released in the United States, 'stalking the criminal mind'. Inasmuch as the objectives of '1968' were anti-capitalist, then the developments since then have violently contradicted the aspirations of that generation. In research recently undertaken in the North of England, one of the most common interpretations encountered of recent transformations was simply that there had been 'one ruddy long recession'. The interpretation which seemed to be operative here of recent changes focused on the 'bloody-mindedness' of determined local women, more than it did on any structural reconfiguration of labour markets.
