the development of the police in Middlesbrough c. 1840-1914 /
First Statement of Responsibility
David Taylor.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 237 pages :
Other Physical Details
maps ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The book provides the first detailed account of a provincial urban police force over a period of 70 years from its inception, at a time when the fast-growing Middlesbrough had a reputation as a violent frontier town (more akin to the American West or gold-rush Australia), to the immediate pre-war years, when the force had acquired experience and maturity and contributed significantly to the creation of a largely law-abiding and policed society. Particular emphasis is placed on the experiences of all ranks of policemen, the changing nature of crime in the town and (most importantly) on the evolution of a working relationships between the police and the wider, policed, community."--Jacket.