‘Lurking’ and ‘loitering’: the genealogy of languages of police suspicion in Britain

While the ideals of the police regulation of urban order in nineteenth-century Britain have received significant scholarly attention, there has been limited engagement with how this type of policing operated in practice. By examining for the first time the evolution and genealogy of ‘lurking’ and ‘l...

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Main Author: Bland, Eleanor (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Policing and society
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Issue: 5, Pages: 664-679
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