Policing the Victorian Town The Development of the Police in Middlesbrough c. 1840-1914

by Taylor, David

• ISBN13: 9780333652398
• ISBN10: 0333652398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

David Taylor is Dean of the School of Music and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Maps	xi
Introduction: Urban Growth, Social Order and Policing	1	(13)
The Birth of the `Infant Hercules': Urban and Industrial Growth in Middlesbrough, c. 1840 to the 1870s	14	(11)
The New Police in Middlesbrough: From the 1841 Improvement Act to the Early Years of the 1856 County and Borough Police Act	25	(27)
The British Ballarat? Crime in Middlesbrough, c. 1840--70	52	(26)
The Police and the Public c. 1840--70: The Limits of Policing by Consent	78	(22)
The Years of Maturation: Urban and Industrial Growth, c. 1870--1914	100	(12)
Expansion and Professionalisation: The Middlesbrough Police, c. 1870--1914	112	(30)
The Police and Crime in Middlesbrough after 1870	142	(29)
The Police and the Public from the 1870s to 1914	171	(14)
Notes	185	(26)
Bibliography	211	(10)
Index	221