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Policing the Victorian Town
The Development of the Police in Middlesborough, c.1840-1914
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About this book
The book looks at the development of policing in a town noted for its high levels of crime. Through a detailed study of policing and police work over the period c. 1840-1914 it shows how the turbulent community of the early Victorian years was turned into a policed society by the end of the century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1 Introduction: Urban Growth, Social Order and Policing
- 2 The Birth of the 'Infant Hercules': Urban and Industrial Growth in Middlesbrough, c. 1840 to the 1870s
- 3 The New Police in Middlesbrough: From the 1841 Improvement Act to the Early Years of the 1856 County and Borough Police Act
- 4 The British Ballarat? Crime in Middlesbrough, c. 1840–70
- 5 The Police and the Public c. 1840–70: The Limits of Policing by Consent
- 6 The Years of Maturation: Urban and Industrial Growth, c. 1870–1914
- 7 Expansion and Professionalisation: The Middlesbrough Police, c. 1870–1914
- 8 The Police and Crime in Middlesbrough after 1870
- 9 The Police and the Public from the 1870s to 1914
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index