RT Book
T1 Property crime in London, 1850 - present
A1 Meier, William M. 1980-
LA English
PP New York, NY u.a.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1612280765
AB "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"--
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (S. [215] - 231) and index
CN HV6950.L7
SN 0230114903
SN 9780230114906
K1 Crime : England : London : History
K1 Justice, Administration of : England : London : History
K1 Offenses against property : England : London : History : 19th century
K1 Offenses against property : England : London : History : 20th century
K1 Offenses against property : England : London : History : 21st century
K1 Crime : Sociological aspects : England : London
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Great Britain
K1 London : Eigentumsdelikt : Kriminalsoziologie : Geschichte 1850-2010