Roger Swift

Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England

Cambridge, 1835-1856

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This original study of the "New Police" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian England than traditional Whig and early revisionist Marxist interpretations implied and will support undergraduate courses in Victorian local, social and criminal justice history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367688738
• ISBN-10: 0367688735
• Artikelnr.: 69894996

Autorenporträt

Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester and has held visiting research fellowships at the Universities of York, Liverpool, Keele and Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Cambridge: The Unreformed System 18
2 The Problem of Crime 29
3 The Process of Police Reform (I): Establishing the 'New Police', 1836-47
42
4 The Process of Police Reform (II): Consolidation and Incorporation,
1848-56 71
5 The Policeman's Lot 87
6 The Police and Crime 103
7 The Police and the Criminals 124
8 The Police and the Public 138
Conclusion 152