Crime control and everyday life in the Victorian city : the police and the public / David Churchill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Churchill, David, 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Crime prevention.

Crime prevention--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Crime control & everyday life in the Victorian city

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1

1 The Urban Police 31

2 The Scope of Policing 55

3 Crime Control and the Police 77

4 Policing the City 98

Part 2

5 Crime Prevention 125

6 Criminal Investigation 147

7 Confronting the Criminal 170

8 Resolution and Criminal Justice 189

Part 3

9 The Police and the Public 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index.

ISBN:

0198797842

9780198797845

OCLC:

990127643