Policing the Victorian Community: The Formation of English Provincial Police Forces, 1856-80CAROLYN STEEDMAN 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. |
Contents
models and theories | |
soldiers and policemen | |
Ratepaying as theory | |
Part Two Men and Policemen | |
Making a County Force | |
Origins | |
Becoming policeman | |
A policemans life | |
Au entirely new situation | |
the campaign for police pension rights | |
The County and Borough Police | |
The Home Office and the provinces | |
the Murphy Riots | |
The Government Inspectors of Constabulary | |
Borough versus county | |
The pattern of county policing | |
The structure of county control | |
The rise and fall of an administrative police | |
The police and the vagrant poor | |
Identity | |
on strike | |
The trade of policeman | |
Good and faithful servants | |
the example of the licencing laws | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography and sources | |
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Policing the Victorian Community: The Formation of English Provincial Police ... Carolyn Steedman No preview available - 1984 |