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Police control systems in Britain, 1775-1975 : From parish constable to national computer /
During the last two centuries, the job of policing in Britain has been transformed several times. This book analyses the ways that police institutions have controlled the individual constable on the 'front line'. The eighteenth-century constable was an independent artisan: his successor in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York [New York] :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The 'old' police, 1780-1840
- 2. The proletarianisation of police labour, 1800-1860
- 3. Drilled bodies and zealous minds, 1820-1890
- 4. Time, bureaucracy and the new policeman, 1830-1930
- 5. Real-time communication, 1848-1945
- 6. The arrival of the control room, 1919-1975
- 7. Computerising the back office, 1955-1980
- 8. Conclusion.