Policing Drunkenness in England and Wales from the Late Eighteenth Century to the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Jennings (0000-0002-5605-7589, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-92 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/shad26010069 |
| OpenAlex | W2898523072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article investigates one of the most common offenders to be dealt with by the nineteenth-century criminal justice system in England and Wales – the drunk. It shows how one of the key aims of policing as it developed from the later eighteenth century was the achievement of a more orderly society, in which the suppression of drunkenness was an essential element. But it demonstrates too how that aim was necessarily tempered by the practicalities of policing, from the day to day dealing with drunks to the wide range of sometimes conflicting pressures under which the police worked. The drunken offenders themselves are also analysed: the overall total, their sex and social makeup. Over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is argued that despite all the problems there are in making this assessment, it is clear that English society did experience a decline of drunkenness,and one part of that was the fall in the rate of prosecutions for the offence
Ancient history · Archaeology · Criminology · Economic history · First world war · Political science · Sociology · World War II · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
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Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England
Crime and the law
Implementation and non‐implementation of the 1839–40 policing acts in East and West Sussex
An historical geography of liberty
Policing a Class Society
Urban Policing in Early Victorian England, 1835–86
The Plague of the Blue Locusts
Drink and the Victorians
The magistrate, the community and the maintenance of an orderly society in eighteenth-century England
The Summary Courts and Social Relations in Eighteenth-Century England
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |