Blackmail: Publicity and Secrecy in Everyday Life

Fascinating sociological analysis of the crime which has, perhaps, diminished in significance with the rise of identity politics and fewer reasons to be blackmailed. Sex scandals leading to blackmail more a 1930s phenomenon than today. Instead footballers rush to court for permanent injunctions but invariably are exposed (and even brothers exploit footballers' discomfiture in TV adverts!). 127 pages.