Churchill, D (2014) 'I am just the man for Upsetting you Bloody Bobbies': popular animosity towards the police in late nineteenth-century Leeds. Social History, 39 (2). 248 - 266. ISSN 0307-1022
Abstract
Most historians of police-public relations in the later nineteenth century have asserted that popular animosity towards the police rested on the contexts of specific encounters, rather than any broader, principled opposition to the police as an institution. However, scholars have yet to engage with the voices of the policed, and have instead relied on inferring popular attitudes from other evidence. This article uses police occurrence books from three out-townships of Leeds to explore popular responses to the police in unprecedented detail. It highlights how various norms within working-class culture – domesticity, masculinity, communal autonomy – precipitated opposition to the exercise of police authority. Moreover, it demonstrates that hostile reactions to the police were motivated both by the contexts of particular interactions and underlying, unsavoury notions of the police as an institution. Hence, police-public relations can only be adequately understood as an interaction between these two factors.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c)2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social History on 23.06.14, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03071022.2014.912424 |
Keywords: | Police-public relations; violence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2015 15:23 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2018 10:56 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2014.912424 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03071022.2014.912424 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:82388 |