Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief

Crime and the British Armed Services Since 1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-965371-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

The belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars, as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of peace, as brutalised veterans are released on to a labour market reorganising for peace, has a long pedigree in Britain. But it has rarely been examined critically and scarcely at all for the period of the two world wars of the twentieth century. This is the first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after these wars. Its particular focus is the two world wars but, recognising the concerns and the problems voiced in recent years about veterans of the Falklands, the Gulf wars, and the campaign in Afghanistan, Clive Emsley concludes his narrative in the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emsley, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: 'The Object of Military Law is to Maintain Discipline': Different laws for different people

- 2: 'A court of justice and not a court of law!': Courts and justice in the services

- 3: 'Law Makes Crime': What difference does war make?

- 4: 'The biggest thieves in the world': Service personnel and property crime

- 5: 'I didn't like the officer. and I don't like you': Crimes against the person

- 6: 'The unwritten law': Servicemen and domestic violence

- 7: The shell-shock defence

- 8: Post-war crime waves?

- 9: Conscripts and Professionals: Beyond the world wars

- 10: 'I could have done other stuff': The return to professional services

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Emsley was educated at the University of York and at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and has taught and held visiting fellowships in Australia, Canada, France, and New Zealand. He has published widely on the history of crime and policing, including Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 (now in its fourth edition), Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England and The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present. He was president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice for ten years.