The Monster Evil
Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
288 pages
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5 halftones, 3 maps
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6 x 9
During the nineteenth century, Liverpool had a notorious reputation as a dangerous, violent, crime-ridden city. Yet were these fears justified? Or were they rather the sensational inventions of Victorian-era news?
The Monster Evil explores Liverpool’s history of violent crime and its policing by the then-new constabulary through the use of police records, local and national press, and contemporary accounts of the violence confronting constables on night patrol. The first significant account of nineteenth-century violence in a British city, this book covers the entire spectrum of violent crime, from murder to drunken assault, and sheds light on the role of the police in combating it.
Clive Emsley, Open University
“Victorian Liverpool had an unenviable reputation for violence. This book sets out to assess both the scale and variety of Liverpool’s violence, and the means by which it was policed. Exhaustively researched and persuasively argued, it adds significantly to the debates about the history of criminal violence and of policing.”
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