This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the pol

This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the pol

How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that p

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history

The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms o