Property Crime in London, 1850-Present
William M. Meier
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. This is the first book to offer an expansive analysis of twentieth-century thieves and to challenge the notion that they operated in a self-contained underworld. It argues that to understand the growth of lawbreaking we must connect 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, shaped criminal decision-making and expanded opportunities for transgression.
الفئات:
عام:
2011
الإصدار:
1
الناشر:
Palgrave Macmillan
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
245
ISBN 10:
0230114903
ISBN 13:
9780230114906
ملف:
PDF, 3.18 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011