| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 作者: |
MeierWilliam M., 1980- |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2011 |
| 版本: |
1st ed. |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (236 p.) |
| 標題: |
Crime - History. - England - |
| 標題: |
Justice, Administration of - History. - England - |
| 標題: |
TRUE CRIME - General. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230119680An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
"This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low (and diminishing) crime to its status as a high-crime society at the outset of the twenty-first century. It treats six different types of misdeed--burglary, shopbreaking, shoplifting, confidence schemes, robbery, and drug smuggling--as representative of distinct phases in the evolution of criminal activity and the criminal-justice system in modern Britain. It argues that the growth of lawbreaking must be explained by connecting sensational and mundane offenses alike to their social and economic contexts, with a particular focus on how these contexts (including experience within the penal system) shape criminal decision-making and expanded opportunities for transgression"--Provided by publisher. |
| ISBN: |
9780230119680electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230119689electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780230114906hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0230114903hbk. |
| 內容註: |
Crime There Will Ever Be * Burglary in the Era of the "English Miracle," 1850-1900 * "Adapting the Machine to Meet Them": Traveling Thieves and the Transformation of Police Power, 1900-39 * Women, Work, and Shoplifting in London, c. 1890-1940� * Aristocrats of Crime: Confidence Men in the Interwar Years * Robbery and the Making of the English Criminal Class, 1945-75 * The Empire Connection: Smugglers and the Modernization of the British Drugs Market * The Ubiquity of Crime. |