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Hardcover Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public Book

ISBN: 0198797842

ISBN13: 9780198797845

Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public

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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...

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