Virtuous citizens, disruptive subjects

"In Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects, Barbara Yngvesson provides an illuminating discussion about the place of a county court as a force for moral order. The book focuses on complaints about neighborhood trouble brought to the court clerk by working class and poor complainants, and on the transformation of these complaints into "garbage cases" by the clerk. Yngvesson illustrates how these transformations reaffirm hierarchies of class, knowledge, and power but also the ways in which the disenfranchised work within the law to create spaces of disruption and the potential for social change"--Back cover.