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Creator |
9108f84aa01dbc49e7af4e418a7c92ba |
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Date |
2003 |
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Is Part Of |
p00488003 |
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repository |
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abstract |
The city in the nineteenth century was often defined as a place of crime: yet from
within, the its authorities sought to represent crime as something external to it.
The presentation of the criminal statistical returns of the English city of Sheffield
can be shown to be distorted in several ways, all of which were consistent with the
project of rendering the criminal as firmly 'other'. The town's returns followed the
national requirement of establishing numbers of 'resident criminals' and their haunts,
but it also went beyond this. Information about residence, ethnicity and literacy
was presented in a way that tried to set a boundary between the 'true' city and the
people in it who were deemed to be committing the majority of crime. The tactic of
labelling was pursued in an effort to symbolically isolate a discrete 'criminal class'.
In addition, the mania for sub-division of certain sorts of crime replaced worryingly
large numbers of total crimes committed with reassuringly small numbers of crimes
that fell into small sub-categories. The returns were a conscious project to create
an image of an incorruptible and professional police force successfully securing and
thus separating the city from a crime threat that was mainly external, 'alien' or
safely under surveillance. |
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authorList |
authors |
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issue |
1 |
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status |
peerReviewed |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/17833 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/19431 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/4882 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/4883 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/649957 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/7292 |
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volume |
50 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Williams, Chris A. (2003). Catégorisation et stigmatisation policières á Sheffield
au milieu du XIXe siècle [Numbering crimes and measuring space: policing Sheffield
in the mid-nineteenth century]. Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 50(1)
pp. 104–125. |
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label |
Williams, Chris A. (2003). Catégorisation et stigmatisation policières á Sheffield
au milieu du XIXe siècle [Numbering crimes and measuring space: policing Sheffield
in the mid-nineteenth century]. Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 50(1)
pp. 104–125. |
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Title |
Catégorisation et stigmatisation policières á Sheffield au milieu du XIXe siècle [Numbering
crimes and measuring space: policing Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century] |
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in dataset |
oro |