Property Crime in London, 1850-Present [electronic resource] /
Meier, W.author.
This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts.
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Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Crime There Will Ever Be"; Burglary in the Era of the "English Miracle," 1850-1900; 2 "Adapting the Machine to Meet Them": Traveling Thieves and the Transformation of Police Power, 1900-1939; 3 Women, Work, and Shoplifting in London, ca. 1890-1940; 4 Aristocrats of Crime: Confidence Men in the Interwar Years; 5 Robbery and the Making of the English Criminal Class, 1945-1975; 6 The Empire Connection: Smugglers and the Modernization of the British Drugs Market; Conclusion: The Ubiquity of Crime; Notes; Selected Bibliography
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts.
Great Britain-History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Culture.
Criminology.
Historiography.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Sociology of Culture.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Historiography and Method.