Policing morals
the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914
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Word Count
85,750 words, Guess
Page Count
343 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1418586M
- ISBN-100198201656
- OCLC Control Number28634675
- Library of Congress Control Number93028452
- Goodreads4015070
Classifications
- DDC363.2/09421
- LCCHV8196.L6 P48 1994
Description
This is the first full scholarly study of the Metropolitan Police in the period 1870-1914, the time when it was transformed into a recognizably modern professional police force. Stefan Petrow examines how the Metropolitan Police, under the direction of the Home Office, grew and changed over these years. He explores the ways in which policing methods developed, traces the growth of the police bureaucracy, and assesses the role played by public attitudes, relations with courts, police corruption, and the resistance of those policed. Dr Petrow focuses on what moral reformers in organized pressure groups claimed were serious threats to social order in late Victorian and Edwardian London - habitual criminality, prostitution, drunkenness, and betting - and examines the Metropolitan force's policing of these areas.
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