Eleanor Bland
Biographic Data
| ID | 2408959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Bland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Bland |
| SIGNATURE | BLAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3196-506X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies
Policing “suspect communities”
While scholars have recognised the postcolonial legacies of targeted policing practices in Australia, there has been more limited engagement with how this type of policing actually operated in historical context. By examining evidence from the Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876-1908), this article suggests that policing in this period was concerned with exercising power over targeted communities and groups. Policing was often directed towa…
Lurking’ and ‘loitering’
While the ideals of the police regulation of urban order in nineteenth-century Britain have received significant scholarly attention, there has been limited engagement with how this type of policing operated in practice. By examining for the first time the evolution and genealogy of ‘lurking’ and ‘loitering’, two legal terms that formed a prominent part of the police language of suspicion from the later eighteenth century, this article emphasises…
Flash houses’
‘Flash houses’, a distinctive type of public house associated with criminal activity, are a shadowy and little-studied aspect of early 19th-century London. This article situates flash houses within a wide perspective, arguing that the discourses on flash houses were part of concerns about the threat of the urban environment to the moral character of its inhabitants. The article draws on an original synthesis of a range of sources that refer to fl…
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
"Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 64–65
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Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
"Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 64–65
Lurking’ and ‘loitering’
While the ideals of the police regulation of urban order in nineteenth-century Britain have received significant scholarly attention, there has been limited engagement with how this type of policing operated in practice. By examining for the first time the evolution and genealogy of ‘lurking’ and ‘loitering’, two legal terms that formed a prominent part of the police language of suspicion from the later eighteenth century, this article emphasises…
Flash houses’
‘Flash houses’, a distinctive type of public house associated with criminal activity, are a shadowy and little-studied aspect of early 19th-century London. This article situates flash houses within a wide perspective, arguing that the discourses on flash houses were part of concerns about the threat of the urban environment to the moral character of its inhabitants. The article draws on an original synthesis of a range of sources that refer to fl…
Policing “suspect communities”
While scholars have recognised the postcolonial legacies of targeted policing practices in Australia, there has been more limited engagement with how this type of policing actually operated in historical context. By examining evidence from the Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876-1908), this article suggests that policing in this period was concerned with exercising power over targeted communities and groups. Policing was often directed towa…
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies
Criminology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art (2 works)