Onodera, Yoko;
(2023)
Policing and the growth of government in England, 1820-1868.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis examines the restructuring of policing in England from 1820 to 1868 by using evidence from London, Bristol, Bath and Leeds. It argues that police agencies were increasingly based on public interests in the process. This was one of the important aspects of government growth. To measure the growth of government, particular attention is given to the quality of governance. This thesis argues that central-local government relations were revitalized under the new system of policing by establishing channels of information between central and local government. Focusing particularly on power relations, the thesis thus provides new insights into the social and political implications of the police. While engaging with studies on eighteenth-century policing, it explores continuity and change in law enforcement to the 1860s. The emergence of the police meant firstly a shift from the parish-based watch to police forces whose jurisdiction covered a wider area, secondly a shifting emphasis from magistrates to police forces. This thesis highlights the roles of parishes and magistrates in determining the course of reform. It also addresses the extent to which British government in the nineteenth century was centralized or decentralized by examining both organizational expansion in administration and central government intervention in policing. In so doing, my research contributes to discussions of state formation in the nineteenth-century. Whilst the comparative urban case studies at the heart of the thesis highlight distinctive features of each police force in their different social, economic and political settings, this thesis shows that different actors in policing developed key notions of responsibility, accountability, efficiency and discretion and shaped nationwide policy for further reform to promote them, in which central government played a crucial role.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Policing and the growth of government in England, 1820-1868 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166628 |
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