Policing the Home Front 1914-1918 - The Control of the British Population At War

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Contents

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List of tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The police before the Great War

Chapter 3: Controversies over the War Separation Allowance

Chapter 4: Policing alcohol

Chapter 5: The rise of women?

Chapter 6: Living costs

Chapter 7: Pensions and philanthropy

Chapter 8: Conscription and the police

Chapter 9: Policing sexual morality

Chapter 10: The Police as ploughmen and farm workers

Chapter 11: Flashpoints and tensions

Chapter 12: Youth crime

Chapter 13: The police and food control

Chapter 14: The corrupting effects of the cinema

Chapter 15: Conclusions to Policing the Home Front 1914-1918

Appendix 1: The work of Michal Foucault (1926-1984)

Index

About the author

Mary Fraser was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, and has held public appointments in healthcare in both England and Scotland. She is the sole author of Using Conceptual Nursing in Practice: A Research-Based Approach published in 1990, which was reprinted in 1993; a second edition was published in 1996. She is also the author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is currently an Associate of The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR).

Summary

This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people’s daily lives. This study is the first to utilise The Police Review and Parade Gossip as a central archival source, and offers a new and intimate perspective on policing during the Great War.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Fraser, Fraser Mary
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664411
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66441-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; First World War, HISTORY / General, Warfare & defence, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1910 to c 1919, Police & security services, Warfare and defence, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Police and security services, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I