[6] Notable Centre books include Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies,[7] Resistance through Rituals,[8] The Empire Strikes Back,[9] Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality.
[11] To mark the 50th anniversary of the CCCS's founding, the University of Birmingham—in collaboration with former members of staff at the centre, including Richard Johnson, Stuart Hall, and Michael Green—created an archive of CCCS-related material at the Cadbury Research Library at Birmingham.
Of special importance is the collective research that led to Policing the Crisis (1978),[13] a study of law and order campaigns that focused on "mugging" (a code for street violence).
[14] The immediate reason given for disestablishment of the new department was an unexpectedly low result in the UK's Research Assessment Exercise of 2001, though a dean from the university described the decision as a consequence of "inexperienced 'macho management'".
[15] Students and staff unsuccessfully campaigned to save the school, which gained considerable attention in the national press and sparked numerous letters of support from former alumni all over the world.