Policing morals: the metropolitan police and the home office 1870-1914
Auteur :
Petrow, Stefan
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198201656
Date de publication :
31 mars 1994
Dimensions :
21,8 x 14,6 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
570 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.