The Best Police in the World
An Oral History of English Policing from the 1930s to the 1960s
Based on interviews with former police officers, this book addresses two main issues. Firstly, the question of how the police themselves viewed the priorities of the job and what they considered their role to be. This is the first study to consider this question and its implications for the style and content of police work. Secondly, it challenges the view of the prewar period as a Golden Age, and shows that policing from the 1930s to the 1960s was not as unproblematic as has often been assumed. Police violence and the fabrication of evidence were more prevalent than the cosy image of the British TV series Dixon of Dock Green would have us b…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-89408-1
- EAN: 9781351894081
- Produktnummer: 24386556
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'442 KB
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The Best Police in the World
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