A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By Which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered; and Suggesting Remedies for Their Prevention.

By A Magistrate. (Colquhoun, Patrick)

Verlag: Printed by H. Fry Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry, London, 1796

Beschreibung

Octavo, xvii [7] 440 pages. plus xxviii -- index. Contemporary calf, gilt, with coat of arms on top cover and bookplate on front paste-down endpaper (no name, just coat of arms). Folding plate between pages 230-231. No half-title. Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820) was one of the founders of the River Thames Police and greatly influenced subsequent police forces. "As impressive as Colquhoun's salesmanship of the public police idea was, his main contribution is recognized as the introduction of crime prevention, or preventative policing, as a fundamental principle to the English police system. His police were to be a deterrent to crime by their permanent presence on the Thames. He came to this conclusion through viewing policing as a science, and in utilitarian fashion, attempted to press that science into the service of the national political economy. He published two dozen treatises on a variety of social problems, but the most significant is his A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis." Worn at joints and edges; spine scuffed. 042407A The Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000015212

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Titel: A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; ...

Verlag: Printed by H. Fry Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1796

Einband: hardcover

Zustand: near very good