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

The history of modern crime control may seem like a story of how the authorities took over the governance of crime from the public. There’s a belief that the culture of crime control in the early modern era declined, and was replaced by a centralized, bureaucratic system of dealing with lawbreakers. The establishment of new, pro-police forces in the 19th century is seen as central to this idea. It is also usually claimed that the priorities of criminal justice were to be dictated by the state, as ordinary people lost what power they once had to deal with offenders. However, this PDF ebook Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City challenges this notion and presents a fresh interpretation of changes in crime control during the era of the new police.
The book provides a comprehensive, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities, and reveals that regular individuals played a significant part in responding to criminal activity. Additionally, it offers a thorough survey of police organization and policing in practice. With its clarity of concept, this book aims to change the way that criminal justice history is looked at. It moves the focus away from state systems of policing and punishment to a more nuanced study of crime governance. The book not only provides an understanding of the role of civil society and the state in modern governance, but it also gives insight into the historical roots of the various ways of dealing with crime which exist in contemporary society. This book has ISBN numbers of 978-0198797845, 978-0192518736, and 978-0192518729 and it is essential to note that this sale is exclusively for the ebook Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public in PDF format, and no access codes are included.