ABSTRACT

Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature. This is Part I, Volume 3.

chapter

Introduction

part |113 pages

Poverty and Crime

part |101 pages

Policing the Poor in Practice

part |115 pages

Personal Reflections on Policing and Poverty

chapter |4 pages

Criminal Life (1891), Excerpt

chapter |7 pages

Scenes from My Life (1858), Excerpt