Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England - Cambridge, 1835-1856

List of contents

Introduction 1
1 Cambridge: The Unreformed System 18
2 The Problem of Crime 29
3 The Process of Police Reform (I): Establishing the ‘New Police’, 1836–47 42
4 The Process of Police Reform (II): Consolidation and Incorporation, 1848–56 71
5 The Policeman’s Lot 87
6 The Police and Crime 103
7 The Police and the Criminals 124
8 The Police and the Public 138
Conclusion 152

About the author

Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester and has held visiting research fellowships at the Universities of York, Liverpool, Keele and Cambridge.

Summary

This original study of the "New Police" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian England than traditional Whig and early revisionist Marxist interpretations implied and will support undergraduate courses in Victorian local, social and criminal justice history.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Swift, Roger (University of Chester Swift
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367688691
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68869-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; European History, LAW / Criminal Law / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Criminal justice law, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history