The New Police in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part I: Police Reform and Administration: The Bedfordshire Police 1840-1856: a case study in the working of the Rural Constabulary Act, Clive Emsley; Reform of the Borough police, 1835-1856, Jenifer Hart; The County and Borough Police Act, 1856, Jenifer Hart; The new police, crime and people in England and Wales, 1829-1888, D.J.V. Jones; The Metropolitan Police Receiver in the XIXth century, R.M. Morris; The police system of London, W. O'Brien; The Home Office and the provincial police in England and Wales, 1856-1870, Henry Parris; Whigs and coppers: the Grey ministry's National Police Scheme (1832), David Philips and Robert D. Storch. Part II: Changing Patterns of Policing: Recruiting the English policeman, c.1840-1940, Clive Emsley and Mark Clapson; 'Private policing and the workplace': the Worsted Committee and the policing of labor in Northern England, 1840-1880, Barry Godfrey; Policing London's morals: the Metropolitan Police and popular culture, 1829-1850, Stephen Inwood; Early policing methods in Gloucestershire, Bryan Jerrard; The plague of the blue locusts: police reform and popular resistance in Northern England, 1840-57, Robert D. Storch; The policeman as domestic missionary: urban discipline and popular culture in Northern England, 1850-1880, Robert D. Storch; The new science of policing: crime and the Birmingham police force, 1839-1842, Michael Weaver. Part III: The New Police - Ireland (The Royal Irish Constabulary): Peel and police reform in Ireland, 1814-18, Tadhg A“ Ceallaigh; James Shaw-Kennedy and the reformation of the Irish Constabulary, 1836-38, Gregory J. Fulham; The domestication of the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1836-1922, W.J. Lowe and E.L. Malcolm; Policing famine Ireland, W.J. Lowe; The constabulary agitation of 1882, W.J. Lowe; 'The reign of terror in Carlow': the politics of policing Ireland in the late 1830s, Elizabeth Malcolm. Part IV: International Comparisons: A typology of 19th-cen