1st Edition
Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. Private Initiative in Law Enforcement: Associations for the Prosecutions of Felons, 1744-1856 3. Police, Power and Community in a Provincial English Town, 1815-1875 4. The Police and the Public in Mid-nineteenth Century 5. The Metropolitan Police, the Home Office and the Threat of Outcast London 6. Penal Servitude 1846-1865: A System in Evolution 7. Public Opinion and Law Enforcement: The Ticket-of-Leave Scares in Mid-Victorian Britain 8. Grinding Men Good? Lancashire’s Prisons at Mid-century 9. Magistrates and Madmen: Segregating the Criminally Insane in Late Nineteenth-century Warwickshire; Notes on Contributors; Index
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