Provincial Police Reform In Early Victorian England

Author : Roger Swift
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000378832

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Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England by Roger Swift Pdf

The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and process of police reform, the changing relationship between the police and the public, and their impact on crime in Cambridge, a medium-sized county town with a rural hinterland. It argues that the experience of Cambridge was unique, for the Corporation shared co-jurisdiction of policing arrangements with the University, and this fractious relationship, as well as political rivalries between Liberals and Tories, impeded the reform process, although the force was certified efficient in 1856. Case studies of the careers of individual policemen and of the crimes and criminals they encountered shed additional light on the darker side of life in early Victorian Cambridge and present a different and more nuanced picture of provincial police reform during a seminal period in police history than either the traditional Whig or early revisionist Marxist interpretations implied. As such, it will support undergraduate courses in local, social, and criminal justice history during the Victorian period.

Author : Roger Swift
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : 0903857316

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Police Reform in Early Victorian York, 1835-1856 by Roger Swift Pdf

Author : CAROLYN STEEDMAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317372585

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Policing the Victorian Community by CAROLYN STEEDMAN Pdf

The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales). Over the next thirty years a class society came to be policed by a largely working-class police. This book, first published in 1984, traces the process by which men made themselves into policemen, translating ideas about work and servitude, about local government and local community, servitude and the ideologies of law and central government, into sets of personal beliefs. By tracing the evolution of a policed society through the agency of local police forces, the book illustrates the ways in which a society, at many levels and from many perspectives, understood itself to operate, and the ways in which ownership, servitude, obligation, and the reciprocality of social relations manifested themselves in different communities. This title will be of interest to students of criminology and history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Boroughs
ISBN : OCLC:829393264

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Policing the Victorian Community by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719047293

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The New Police in Nineteenth-Century England by David Taylor Pdf

Focusing on the evolution of a policed society in 19th century England by examining the arguments surrounding police reforms and the popular response to the police, Taylor provides an introduction which sets modern policing in a wider context.

Author : David Churchill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518736

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Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City by David Churchill Pdf

The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is central to this narrative: henceforth, it is claimed, the priorities of criminal justice were to be set by the state, as ordinary people lost what authority they had once exercised over dealing with offenders. This book challenges this established view, and presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity which ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. With unique conceptual clarity, it seeks to reorient modern criminal justice history away from its established preoccupation with state systems of policing and punishment, and move towards a more nuanced analysis of the governance of crime. More widely, the book provides a unique and valuable vantage point from which to rethink the role of civil society and the state in modern governance, the nature of agency and authority in Victorian England, and the historical antecedents of pluralized modes of crime control which characterize contemporary society.

Author : David Philips,Robert D. Storch
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023599736

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Policing Provincial England, 1829-1856 by David Philips,Robert D. Storch Pdf

One of the most profound social changes in the 19th century was the transition to a policed society, with a professional police force. This study of the parish constabulary before its marginalization and the development of county policing, considers the role of the police in civil liberty.

Author : Paul Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351541848

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The New Police in the Nineteenth Century by Paul Lawrence Pdf

The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, supposedly more efficient, forces were raised in their stead. Subsequently, the introduction of the 'New Police' has been represented as a watershed in the development of the systems of policing we know today. But just how sweeping were the changes made to the maintenance of law and order during the nineteenth century? The articles collected in this volume (written by some of the foremost criminal justice historians) show a process which, while cumulatively dramatic, was also at times protracted and acrimonious. There were significant changes to the way in which Britain and Ireland were policed during the nineteenth century, but these changes were by no means as straightforward or as progressive as they have at times been represented.

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349271054

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Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750–1914 by David Taylor Pdf

One of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of historical research in recent years has been the study of crime and the criminal. The intrinsic fascination of the subject is enhanced by the fact that between the mid eighteenth century and early twentieth century, the English criminal justice system was fundamentally transformed as a new disciplinary state emerged. Drawing on recent research, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of these important changes.

Author : R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719036003

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British Economic and Social History by R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner Pdf

Author : D. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230535817

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Policing the Victorian Town by D. Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : John Benson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000688931

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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain by John Benson Pdf

Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley (1860–1936), who was barred from working by the Law Society, twice declared bankrupt, and in 1919 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour for bigamously marrying a woman practically forty years his junior. If Pawley did not suffer the revenge of respectable society, it is difficult to think who would. Drawing upon the fact that the disgraced and the disreputable have always tended to attract a disproportionate amount of attention, the book ranges widely, exploring such important issues as middle-class education, career choices, the dynamics of family life, and the workings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century legal system. It shows that Pawley was able to hold on to his professional – and even gentlemanly – status for far longer than seemed likely. This all suggests, the book concludes, that although respectability was as important to the middle class as we have always been told, it was both easier to acquire and easier to retain than we have generally been led to believe. This book will appeal to all those interested in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890249

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The English Police by Clive Emsley Pdf

A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.

Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905

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The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 by Alun C. Davies Pdf

This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.

Author : Alison Adam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030288372

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Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850 by Alison Adam Pdf

This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with authors drawn from law, history, sociology and science and technology studies, this work shows how forensic objectivity is constructed through detailed crime history case studies, mainly in relation to murder, set in Scotland, England, Germany, Sweden, USA and Ireland. Starting from the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, the book argues that a number of developments were crucial. These include: the beginning of crime photography, the use of diagrams and models specially constructed for the courtroom so jurors could be ‘virtual witnesses’, probabilistic models of certainty, the professionalization of medical and scientific expert witnesses and their networks, ways of measuring, recording and developing criminal records and the role of the media, particularly newspapers in reporting on crime, criminals and legal proceedings and their part in the shaping of public opinion on crime. This essential title demonstrates the ways in which forensic objectivity has become a central concept in relation to criminal justice over a period spanning 170 years.