E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, eBook
Meier Property Crime in London, 1850–Present
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11968-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-0-230-11968-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts.
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