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Barry Godfrey

Policing the Factory

Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England

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Policing the Factory describes the operation of various private policing agencies, employed to track down and prosecute workplace offenders. The authors focus in particular on the Worsted Committee and their Inspectors, who, between 1777 and 1968, prosecuted thousands of workers in the north of England for taking home workplace scraps, or wasting their employer's time. Most of the workers prosecuted spent a month in prison upon conviction, and many more were dismissed from employment without any formal legal action taking place. This book explores how, and under what legislative basis, the criminal law could be brought into private spaces in… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cox, David J.
  • ISBN: 978-1-4411-7688-2
  • EAN: 9781441176882
  • Produktnummer: 14494314
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 478 KB

Über den Autor


Barry Godfrey is Professor of Social History at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published fourteen books on crime history, life-course offending, and longitudinal studies of sentencing. His latest book, Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (2017), was co-authored with Heather Shore, Pamela Cox and Zoe Alker. He has edited three collections on international and comparative crime history and is the editor of the History of Crime in the UK and Ireland book series.

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