Making People Pay (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1973 this book offers a fascinating and systematic description of the debt-collection process in 1970s England. Basing his research on the words of creditors debtors solicitors and debt-collectors Paul Rock’s research was conducted when imprisonment for debt was still in existence. The book covers the major stages in a defaulter’s career from enforcement by his creditors and the work of the debt-collector through the various processes of the law often to a period of imprisonment. Particular attention is given to the attempts made by debt-collectors to manage an unusual form of deviance and the consequences of their actions.</p>