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David Jones, Crime, Protest, Community and Police in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xi + 247. $32.00.

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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1982 

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1 It is risky to footnote single examples as evidence of a tendency, but I consider as some examples Samuel J. Walker, A Critical History of Police Reform: The Emergence of Professionalism (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., 1977); Robert M. Fogelson, Big-City Police (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977); David R. Johnson, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800–1887 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979); or any of the articles in the new journal Criminal Justice History.Google Scholar

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13 Mind you, two of seven chapters closely resemble the work of Roger Lane; the other five are distinctly of the British social history school and far better.Google Scholar