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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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2007, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 439-454 |
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