Police and the Prevention of Crime : Commerce, Temptation and the Corruption of the Body Politic, from Fielding to Colquhoun

Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization of the causes and effects of crime as stemming from social processes rather than indi...

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Main Author: Dodsworth, Francis (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2007, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 439-454
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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