Criminal and constable : the impact of policing reform on crime in nineteenth century London

Educated Londoners in the early 1800s, frightened by crime, tended to demonize the city's criminals, attributing sophistication, organisation and vigour to them. In reality, conventional Metropolitan crime was the product of acute social disorganisation, most of its exponents coming from a marg...

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Main Author: Durston, Gregory J.
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400498