Historians, legal scholars, sociologists and crime readers will learn from this book that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Police reform devel

Providing an overview of the history of policing in the UK, the book investigates the changes in policing strategies over time, and provides a historical founda

Bobby on the Beat is the true memoir of a real-life London copper, charting Bob Dixon's experiences as a young police officer before he joined the CID.

This work argues that police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. Th