Crime and Policing in the Twentieth Century: The South Wales Experience

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This pioneering work is based on entirely original research. It gives a detailed assessment of the pattern of crime and of developments in policing during the twentieth century, a period for which little historical analysis of crime has been published. The author focuses upon a specific police authority area which typifies the challenges faced by the police in Britain this century. The area covered by the South Wales Police contains a rich tapestry of communities, from isolated, rural villages to urban industrial centres including Cardiff and Swansea. It has the geography of a county police force and some of the problems of a metropolitan police area. It also has some well preserved police records which have here been
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This pioneering work is based on entirely original research. It gives a detailed assessment of the pattern of crime and of developments in policing during the twentieth century, a period for which little historical analysis of crime has been published. The author focuses upon a specific police authority area which typifies the challenges faced by the police in Britain this century. The area covered by the South Wales Police contains a rich tapestry of communities, from isolated, rural villages to urban industrial centres including Cardiff and Swansea. It has the geography of a county police force and some of the problems of a metropolitan police area. It also has some well preserved police records which have here been analysed in depth. This volume points up clearly the changes in the nature of crime and policing in the last hundred years. In 1900, the modern problems of motoring and drug offences, for example, were hardly mentioned, and police work early in the century was similar to that of fifty years earlier. The years of the late 1950s and 1960s witnessed major changes in criminal activity and transformed policing and public attitudes. This work will be vital for all those who need to set the current debates on crime, punishment and the performance of the police in a historical context and to trace the historical roots of today's fears, myths and prejudices.

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David J.V. Jones joined the University of Wales Swansea History Department in 1966 and remained there until his death, having been awarded a Personal Chair in 1991 in recognition of his remarkable contribution to research in Welsh history. His books include Before Rebecca (1973), Chartism and the Chartists (1975), Crime, Protest, Community and Police in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1982), The Last Rising: the Newport Insurrection of 1839 (1985), Rebecca's Children (1989) and Crime in Nineteenth-Century Wales (1992).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Graph and Charts
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Chronology of the main organizational changes in South Wales policing
Map of the South Wales Constabulary 1989
1 Dealing with Crime and Criminals 1
2 Crime: A General Survey 55
3 Crime and Society 112
4 The Police 187
5 The Police, Crime and People 240
Epilogue 282
Note on Graphs 298
Select Bibliography 302
Index 322
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