This work argues that police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. This book also contends that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Local and national officials co-operated at many levels to provide policing for London, culminating in Sir Robert Peel's centralized Metropolitan Police in 1829. The early modern British state was thus more responsive to urban problems than previously has been acknowledged.
- ISBN10 033369936X
- ISBN13 9780333699362
- Publish Date 17 June 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English