History 2148A/B Lecture 1: History of Policing and Detection 2148 complete notes 2016
8 Aug 2016
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The british were terri ed of a centralized policing system run by the government, thought it to be similar to policing of the french absolutist government (no rights to the subject) Policing began in 1829 in britain, however no detection until 1842 6 murder cases prominent at this time, metropolitan police were seen as controversial. The bow street runners, professional but not state-controlled group of men who worked alongside the metropolitan police from 1829-39. By the end of the 19th century, there was a sort of affection towards policing. The victorian era was class ridden; police men would have been of upper working class and middle class, formal schooling would have been limited. Victorian police were not as concerned with murder as they were with property crime. Society was becoming less violent by 19th century, more inclined to engage in debate than in physical con ict.
