ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the battles in the discourses so that the state controlled many of the changing needs of the population at home while also attempting to provide increasing numbers of army recruits to win the war. It shows their lives and work in two distinct roles in the First World War. First, with the population they policed, such as in the surveillance of wives in receipt of the war separation allowance, sexual morality, and food control and youth crime. Second, their own position within the different police forces in Britain showing their conditions of service during wartime and the lives this gave their families as seen in living costs, pensions and conscription. The book explores the national structures which controlled police work, such as conscription into the army and the way the police service responded to these continuing calls by government.
