Policing and punishment in nineteenth century Britain / edited by Victor Bailey.

Contributor Bailey, Victor, 1948-

Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1981.

Description248 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:1. Introduction / Victor Bailey -- 2. Private initiative in law enforcement: associations for the prosecution of felons, 1744-1856 / Adrian Shubert -- 3. Police, power and community in a provincial English town: Portsmouth, 1815-1875 / John Field -- 4. The police and the public in mid-19th-century Warwickshire / Barbara Weinberger -- 5. The metropolitan police, the Home Office and the threat of outcast London / Victor Bailey -- 6. Penal servitude 1846-1865: a system in evolution / M. Heather Tomlinson -- 7. Public opinion and law enforcement: the ticket-of-leave scares in mid-Victorian Britain / Peter W.J. Bartrip -- 8. Grinding men good? Lancashire's prisons at mid-century / Margaret E. DeLacy -- 9. Magistrates and madmen: segregating the criminally insane in late-19th-century Warwickshire / Janet Saunders.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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