Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780198797845 |
| Open Library | OL21158225W |
| Total publications | 6 |
| Coverage period | 2017 - 2018 |
| Language | EN |
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 centralized, 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.
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
This book provides the first detailed study of policing and civilian crime control in nineteenth-century England. It provides a sustained, empirically rich critique of existing accounts, which present the modern history of crime control as a process whereby the state wrested governmental power from the civilian public. According to the orthodox interpretation, the formation of new, ‘professional’ police forces in the nineteenth century is integra…
Confronting the Criminal
This chapter examines civilian self-policing in the Victorian city, through a survey of self-defence and apprehension practices. Despite the formation of preventative police forces, victims of crime remained active in defending themselves and in tackling offenders on the streets, in shops, homes, and workplaces. Victims’ participation in this field was underpinned by the limited physical presence of the police, and by forms of legal duty and cult…
Crime Prevention
This chapter analyses the civilian contribution to crime prevention in the Victorian city, and places that contribution in the context of official strategies of crime control. Whereas most studies assert that the police monopolized crime prevention in the nineteenth century, this chapter reveals that the public retained a vital role through situational techniques of prevention. Furthermore, it outlines the development of security markets in the n…
Policing the City
This chapter assesses the impact of policing on urban order. It argues that the nineteenth-century police forces were especially attentive to local perceptions of nuisance and improvement in their efforts to tame urban popular culture and to sanitize urban public space. Police efforts to impose public order were modified by structural constraints, exercise of discretion in law enforcement, and resistance on the part of the public. And yet, the ps…
The Scope of Policing
This chapter explores the urban police role in the nineteenth century, examining what the police did and how they were deployed in the city. It details how both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ police were given an ‘omnibus mandate’, covering crime control, urban order, sanitation, and public safety. Police statistics reveal that police interventions were far more common for minor, impersonal, regulatory offences than for more serious, personal crimes of …
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
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 centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is centr…
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Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
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 centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is centr…
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
This book provides the first detailed study of policing and civilian crime control in nineteenth-century England. It provides a sustained, empirically rich critique of existing accounts, which present the modern history of crime control as a process whereby the state wrested governmental power from the civilian public. According to the orthodox interpretation, the formation of new, ‘professional’ police forces in the nineteenth century is integra…
Confronting the Criminal
This chapter examines civilian self-policing in the Victorian city, through a survey of self-defence and apprehension practices. Despite the formation of preventative police forces, victims of crime remained active in defending themselves and in tackling offenders on the streets, in shops, homes, and workplaces. Victims’ participation in this field was underpinned by the limited physical presence of the police, and by forms of legal duty and cult…
Crime Prevention
This chapter analyses the civilian contribution to crime prevention in the Victorian city, and places that contribution in the context of official strategies of crime control. Whereas most studies assert that the police monopolized crime prevention in the nineteenth century, this chapter reveals that the public retained a vital role through situational techniques of prevention. Furthermore, it outlines the development of security markets in the n…
Policing the City
This chapter assesses the impact of policing on urban order. It argues that the nineteenth-century police forces were especially attentive to local perceptions of nuisance and improvement in their efforts to tame urban popular culture and to sanitize urban public space. Police efforts to impose public order were modified by structural constraints, exercise of discretion in law enforcement, and resistance on the part of the public. And yet, the ps…
The Scope of Policing
This chapter explores the urban police role in the nineteenth century, examining what the police did and how they were deployed in the city. It details how both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ police were given an ‘omnibus mandate’, covering crime control, urban order, sanitation, and public safety. Police statistics reveal that police interventions were far more common for minor, impersonal, regulatory offences than for more serious, personal crimes of …