David Philips, William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia
William Augustus Miles has rarely made it beyond the footnotes of various histories of crime, policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century England and Australia. He was in the second rank of the moral entrepreneurs who investigated crime and its causes and urged a particular kind of reform in po...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | William Augustus Miles has rarely made it beyond the footnotes of various histories of crime, policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century England and Australia. He was in the second rank of the moral entrepreneurs who investigated crime and its causes and urged a particular kind of reform in policing and punishment. He is best known in England for his writing on these topics during the 1830s and for acting as an assistant commissioner for the Royal Commission investigating the need for a... |
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