Download or read book Making People Pay (Routledge Revivals) written by Paul Rock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.