The beat : policing a Victorian city

Dean Wilson
Beaconsfield, Vic. : Circa, 2006

ISBN: 0975780255

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Book description
A police officer in Melbourne at the end of the nineteenth century ideally had to be male, ‘well set-up’ physically, with a demeanour and attitude intended to command respect from those he might meet on his daily round — usually the routine ‘beat’ he trod around the city streets. This entertaining new book enters the daily lives of those colonial policemen, exploring the politics and personalities behind the scenes as the police force evolved from the community-based beat system of the goldrush era into the mechanised organisation of the early twentieth century. [Publisher's website]

About the author
Dr. Dean Wilson is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Dr. Wilson's research interests include surveillance and social control, media representations of crime, victimology and victims of crime and histories of policing. He has worked as a consultant with state and local government on the operation of CCTV. He is co-editor of Surveillance, Crime and Social Control (2005)

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