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Police and policing in the twentieth century / edited by Chris A. Williams.

Contributor(s): Williams, Chris ASeries: Publication details: Farnham, Surrey ; Ashgate, 2011. Description: xxiv, 511 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780754629542; 0754629546Subject(s): Police -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Polisarbete -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1900-talet | Kriminologi -- historia -- 1900-taletDDC classification: 363.209410904 LOC classification: HV8195. | A2P59 2011
Contents:
Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence 1914-64 / Chris A. Williams -- Some reflections on the report of the Royal Commission on the Police / Jenifer Hart -- The independence of Chief Constables / Bryan Keith-Lucas -- 'Mother, what did policemen do when there weren't any motors?' The law, the police and the regulation of motor traffic in England, 1900-1939 / Clive Emsley -- Traffic, telephones and police boxes: the deterioration of beat policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester between the World Wars / Joanne Klein -- Policing, planning and the regulation of traffic in post-war Leicester / Shane Ewen -- Police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV in the 1960s / Chris A. Williams -- The 'ghost squad': undercover policing in London, 1945-49 / Mark Roodhouse -- Crime does not pay: thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police / R.M. Morris -- The police and the people: gambling in Salford, 1900-1939 / Andrew Davies -- Containment: managing street prostitution in London 1918-1959 / Stefan Anthony Slater -- 'The coffee club menace': policing youth, leisure and sexuality in post-war Manchester / Louise A. Jackson -- A portrait of a novice constable in the London Metropolitan Police c.1900 / Haia Shpayer-Makov -- Street, beat and respectability: the culture and self-image of the Victorian and Edwardian urban policeman / Mark Clapson and Clive Emsley -- A policewife's lot is not a happy one: police wives in the 1930s and 1940s / Barbara Weinberger -- 'Walking the streets in a way no decent woman should': women police in World War I / Philippa Levine -- Care or control? The Metropolitan Women Police and child welfare, 1919-1969 / Louise A. Jackson -- Blue-collar job, blue-collar career: policemen's perplexing struggle for a voice in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester,1900-1919 / Joanne Klein -- Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple or a diseased orchard? / Clive Emsley -- 'A plague on both their houses': fascism, anti-fascism and the police in the 1940s / Graham Macklin -- Policing pit closures, 1984-1992 / David Waddington and Chas Critcher -- The Metropolitan Police: alienation, culture, and relations with London's Caribbean community, (1950-70) / James Whitfield.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence 1914-64 / Chris A. Williams -- Some reflections on the report of the Royal Commission on the Police / Jenifer Hart -- The independence of Chief Constables / Bryan Keith-Lucas -- 'Mother, what did policemen do when there weren't any motors?' The law, the police and the regulation of motor traffic in England, 1900-1939 / Clive Emsley -- Traffic, telephones and police boxes: the deterioration of beat policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester between the World Wars / Joanne Klein -- Policing, planning and the regulation of traffic in post-war Leicester / Shane Ewen -- Police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV in the 1960s / Chris A. Williams -- The 'ghost squad': undercover policing in London, 1945-49 / Mark Roodhouse -- Crime does not pay: thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police / R.M. Morris -- The police and the people: gambling in Salford, 1900-1939 / Andrew Davies -- Containment: managing street prostitution in London 1918-1959 / Stefan Anthony Slater -- 'The coffee club menace': policing youth, leisure and sexuality in post-war Manchester / Louise A. Jackson -- A portrait of a novice constable in the London Metropolitan Police c.1900 / Haia Shpayer-Makov -- Street, beat and respectability: the culture and self-image of the Victorian and Edwardian urban policeman / Mark Clapson and Clive Emsley -- A policewife's lot is not a happy one: police wives in the 1930s and 1940s / Barbara Weinberger -- 'Walking the streets in a way no decent woman should': women police in World War I / Philippa Levine -- Care or control? The Metropolitan Women Police and child welfare, 1919-1969 / Louise A. Jackson -- Blue-collar job, blue-collar career: policemen's perplexing struggle for a voice in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester,1900-1919 / Joanne Klein -- Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple or a diseased orchard? / Clive Emsley -- 'A plague on both their houses': fascism, anti-fascism and the police in the 1940s / Graham Macklin -- Policing pit closures, 1984-1992 / David Waddington and Chas Critcher -- The Metropolitan Police: alienation, culture, and relations with London's Caribbean community, (1950-70) / James Whitfield.