Policing and punishment in nineteenth century Britain (Vol. 1)
edited by Victor Bailey.
- Great Britain : Routledge, 2016.
- 248 p.
- (Routledge library editions. The history of crime and punishment) .
Table of Contents : Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Private initiative in law enforcement : associations for the prosecution of felons, 1744-1856 Chapter 3. Police, power and community in a provincial English town : Portsmouth, 1815-1875 Chapter 4. The police and the public in mid-nineteenth-century Warwickshire Chapter 5. The metropolitan police, the home office and the threat of outcast London Chapter 6. Penal servitude 1846-1865 : a system in evolution Chapter 7. Public opinion and law enforcement : the ticket-of-leave scares in mid-Victorian Britain Chapter 8. Grinding men good? Lancashire's prisons at mid-century Chapter 9. Magistrates and madmen : segregating the criminally insane in late-nineteenth-century Warwickshire Index
9781138942677
Police -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.