Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: Th...
Churchill, David / Rayner, Lucy
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 cent...
