D. Taylor

Policing the Victorian Town

The Development of the Police in Middlesborough, C.1840-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

The book looks at the development of policing in a town noted for its high levels of crime. Through a detailed study of policing and police work over the period c. 1840-1914 it shows how the turbulent community of the early Victorian years was turned into a policed society by the end of the century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-65239-8
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780333652398
• ISBN-10: 0333652398
• Artikelnr.: 22201152

Autorenporträt

DAVID TAYLOR is Dean of the School of Music and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of The New Place in Nineteenth-Century England, and Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750-1914.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Urban Growth, Social Order and Policing The Birth of the 'Infant Hercules': Urban and Industrial Growth in Middlesborough, c.1840-1870 The New Police in Middlesborough: From the 1841 Improvement Act to the Early Years of the 1856 County and Borough Police Act The British Ballarat? Crime in Middlesborough, c.1840-1870 The Police and the Public: The Limits of Policing by Consent The Years of Maturation: Urban and Industrial Growth in Middlesborough, c.1870-1914 Expansion and Professionalization: The Middlesborough Police, c.1870-1914 The Police and Crime in Middlesborough after 1870 The Police and the Public from the 1870s to 1914

Rezensionen

'His book is well researched and well argued, adding significant detail to our knowledge and understanding of the issues.' - Clive Emsley, H-Urban, H-Net Reviews