A Culture of Policing: The Metropolitan Police and Street Crime in London Between the Wars

by Stefan Slater

From the post-war police strikes (1918 and 1919), to the plans of petty criminals for the coronation of King George VI (1937), there was always a good story in crime. Crime sold books, filled copy in newspapers, was discussed by politicians and demanded the attention of sociologists, criminologists, voluntary societies and other busybodies. What excited these varying audiences was an idea of crime, an underworld of professional criminals hiding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843929163
• ISBN13: 9781843929161
• Release Date: December 2030
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages