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Policing morals [electronic resource] : the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914 / Stefan Petrow.
By: Petrow, Stefan
.Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1994Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 343 p.).ISBN: 9780191674976 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Police -- England -- London -- History | London (England) -- Moral conditions | London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 | Social reformers -- England -- London -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198201656DDC classification: 363.209421 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge.
A study of the Metropolitan Police from 1870-1914, when it became a modern professional police force. The author focuses on what moral reformers claimed were serious threats to social order in late-Victorian and Edwardian London, and examines the force's policing of these contentious areas.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.