Something for Theresa May to think about
John Barrell: The Bow Street Runners, 7 June 2012
The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840
by J.M. Beattie.
Oxford, 272 pp., £65, February 2012,978 0 19 969516 4 Show More
by J.M. Beattie.
Oxford, 272 pp., £65, February 2012,
“... by ‘sheer criminality’. The word ‘sheer’ did most of the work: the cause of criminality, Theresa May was arguing, was criminality itself. Boris Johnson was quick to agree. When did it become a test of ideological purity to be able to say with a straight face that poverty and unemployment have nothing to do with the causes of crime? Who was the ... ”