Contents: Introduction; Part I How Police Were Organised: Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence 1914–64, Chris A. Williams; Some reflections on the report of the Royal Commission on the Police, Jenifer Hart; The independence of Chief Constables, Bryan Keith-Lucas. Part II How Technology Changed Policing: 'Mother, what did policemen do when there weren't any motors?' The law, the police and the regulation of motor traffic in England, 1900–1939, Clive Emsley; Traffic, telephones and police boxes: the deterioration of beat policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester between the World Wars, Joanne Klein; Policing, planning and the regulation of traffic in post-war Leicester, Shane Ewen; Police surveillance and the emergence of CCTV in the 1960s, Chris A. Williams. Part III What Police Did: The 'ghost squad': undercover policing in London, 1945–49, Mark Roodhouse; Crime does not pay. Thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police, R.M. Morris; The police and the people: gambling in Salford, 1900–1939, Andrew Davies; Containment: managing street prostitution in London 1918–1959, Stefan Anthony Slater; 'The coffee club menace': policing youth, leisure and sexuality in post-war Manchester, Louise A. Jackson. Part IV Who Police Were: A portrait of a novice constable in the London Metropolitan Police c.1900, Haia Shpayer-Makov; Street, beat and respectability: the culture and self-image of the Victorian and Edwardian urban policeman, Mark Clapson and Clive Emsley; A policewife's lot is not a happy one: police wives in the 1930s and 1940s, Barbara Weinberger; 'Walking the streets in a way no decent woman should': women police in World War I, Philippa Levine; Care or control? The Metropolitan Women Police and child welfare, 1919–1969, Louise A. Jackson. Part V Crises of Policing: Blue-collar job, blue-collar career: policemen's perplexing struggle for a voice in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester,1900–1919, Joanne Klein; Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple or a diseased orchard?, Clive Emsley; 'A plague on both their houses': fascism, anti-fascism and the police in the 1940s, Graham Macklin; Policing pit closures, 1984–1992, David Waddington and Chas Critcher; The Metropolitan Police: alienation, culture, and relations with London's Caribbean community, (1950–70), James Whitfield; Name index.
