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 central to this narrative: henceforth, it is claimed, the priorities of criminal justice were to be set by the state, as ordinary people
lost what authority they had once exercised over dealing with offenders.
This book challenges this established view, and presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the
tremendous activity which ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. With unique conceptual clarity, it seeks to reorient modern criminal justice history away from its established preoccupation with state systems of
policing and punishment, and move towards a more nuanced analysis of the governance of crime. More widely, the book provides a unique and valuable vantage point from which to rethink the role of civil society and the state in modern governance, the nature of agency and authority in Victorian
England, and the historical antecedents of pluralized modes of crime control which characterize contemporary society.
Author(s): David Churchill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Oxford
Cover
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Maps
Introduction
The Problem
Conceptual Frame
The Setting
Sources and Method
Outline
Part 1
1: The Urban Police
From Old to New Police
The Development of the New Police
Conclusion
2: The Scope of Policing
AN ‘OMNIBUS MANDATE’
POLICE POWERS AND DISCRETION
THE PREVENTATIVE STRATEGY
POLICING: A STATISTICAL PROFILE
CONCLUSION
3: Crime Control and the Police
CRIME, PROPERTY, AND COMMUNITY
ENLARGING THE FIELD OF CRIME CONTROL
POLICING CRIME: THE STATISTICAL RECORD
CRIME AND THE CITY
POLICING IN PRACTICE
CONCLUSION
4: Policing the City
Nuisance, Property, and Order
The State of the Streets
Cities of Disorder
Limits to Policing
Police-Consciousness
Conclusion
Part 2
5: Crime Prevention
SECURING THE CITY
MARKETS IN SECURITY
CRIME PREVENTION ABOUT TOWN
THE PREVENTATIVE MENTALITY
CONCLUSION
6: Criminal Investigation
Discovering Offences: Surveillance and Suspicion
Tracing Goods and Suspects
Investigative Networks and the Trade in Stolen Goods
Criminal Inteligence and the Pres
Conclusion
7: Confronting the Criminal
Confrontation and Aprehension
Sumoning Asistance: The Constable and the Crowd
A Culture of Confro ntation
Conclusion
8: Resolution and Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Process
Reluctant Prosecutors
Out of Court : Alternative Resolutions
Private Justice: Victims and the Problem of Discretion
Conclusion
Part 3
9: The Police and the Public
Grounds for Optimism?
Everyday Conflicts
Politics and Principle
A Policeman’s Work is Never Done: Managing Public Expectations
Conclusion
Conclusion
A MIXED ECONOMY OF CRIME CONTROL
THE STATE MONOPOLY: DEFERRED OR DENIED?
THE VICTORIAN ANTECEDENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CRIME CONTROL
AGENCY AND AUTHORITY IN THE GOVERNANCE OF CRIME
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archival and Manuscript Sources
Printed Primary Sources
Books
Book Chapters
Articles
Secondary Sources
Books
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
Unpublished Works
Index
