David Churchill

Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City

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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 offenses. The formation of the "new" professional police forces in the 19th 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 audiobook 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 that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime — alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice.
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Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publication year
2018
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