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Policing the Factory - Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England (Hardcover, New)
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Policing the Factory - Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England (Hardcover, New)
Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
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"Policing the Factory" describes the operation of the Bank of
England police, the Post Office police, and various other 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 this period and goes on suggest that the activities of
the Inspectorate inhibited the development of public policing in
Yorkshire. The book presents case studies, newspaper comment,
memoirs, and statistics based on detailed archival analysis of
court records, to create a richly textured story which will inform
and challenge contemporary debates on policing and police history.
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