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Policing morals : the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914 /

A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petrow, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Großbritannien > Innenministerium
Police > England > London > History.
London (England) > Moral conditions.
Social reformers > England > London > History.
London (England) > History > 1800-1950.
Réformateurs sociaux > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) > Histoire > 1800-1950.
Moral conditions
Police
Social reformers
England > London
Sozialreform
Polizei
London
Politie.
Overheidsbeleid.
1800-1950
Geschichte 1870-1914.
Police > History
London (England)
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-330 and index.
ISBN:9780191674976
0191674974