Policing the Factory
Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England
Seiten
2014
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8170-9 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8170-9 (ISBN)
Policing the Factory describes the operation of various private policing agencies, employed to track down and prosecute workplace offenders. The authors focus in particular on the Worsted Committee and their Inspectors, who, between 1777 and 1968, prosecuted thousands of workers in the north of England for taking home workplace scraps, or wasting their employer's time. Most of the workers prosecuted spent a month in prison upon conviction, and many more were dismissed from employment without any formal legal action taking place.
This book explores how, and under what legislative basis, the criminal law could be brought into private spaces in this period and goes on suggest that the activities of the Inspectorate inhibited the development of public policing in Yorkshire. The book presents case studies, newspaper comment, memoirs, and statistics based on detailed archival analysis of court records, to create a richly textured story which will inform and challenge contemporary debates on policing and police history.
This book explores how, and under what legislative basis, the criminal law could be brought into private spaces in this period and goes on suggest that the activities of the Inspectorate inhibited the development of public policing in Yorkshire. The book presents case studies, newspaper comment, memoirs, and statistics based on detailed archival analysis of court records, to create a richly textured story which will inform and challenge contemporary debates on policing and police history.
Barry Godfrey is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, UK. David J. Cox is Research Fellow at Keele University, UK.
Acknowledgements / Foreword Peter King / List of Abbreviations / 1. Introduction / 2. Customary 'Rights' and Workplace 'Theft' / 3. Why take the Risk? Workplace Appropriation: Motivation and Method / 4. The Construction of a Disciplined and Ordered World / 5. Private Policing in the Industrial Age / 6. Policing without the Inspectorate? The Changing Role of the Worsted Committee 1853-1968 / 7. Sentencing and Punishment in Worstedopolis / 8. Changing Notions of Customary Right, Morality and Control in the Factory System / 9. Conclusion / Glossary of Technical Terms / Bibliography / Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.8.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 318 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4725-8170-9 / 1472581709 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-8170-9 / 9781472581709 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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