Policing the Ghetto: Jewish East London, 1880-1920
In the generation before the First World War Whitechapel, in East London, became home to one of the largest immigrant communities in England. There were few points of contact between this community and those charged with policing it. The immigrants came from a world suspicious of men in uniform. The...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2013
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | In the generation before the First World War Whitechapel, in East London, became home to one of the largest immigrant communities in England. There were few points of contact between this community and those charged with policing it. The immigrants came from a world suspicious of men in uniform. The police, for their part, perceived the Jewish community as peaceable, sober and relatively free from criminality; but the police also shared the indigenous community’s suspicion of aliens. Concern about political extremism brought closer police involvement and the First World War brought increased supervision. However the presence of respectable middle-class Anglo-Jewry with a strong sense of community solidarity as well as a strong sense of English values appears to have contributed to a significant contrast between Jewish-police relations and Irish-police relations across the period. |
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