Police control systems in Britain, 1775-1975 : From parish constable to national computer /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Williams, Chris A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Police > Technological innovations > Great Britain.
Police administration > Great Britain > History.
Police > Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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