Soldier, sailor, beggarman, thief crime and the British armed services since 1914
Title:
Soldier, sailor, beggarman, thief crime and the British armed services since 1914
Author:
Emsley, Clive.
ISBN:
9780191647031
9781283949569
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 216 p.)
Contents:
1. 'The object of military law is to maintain discipline': different laws for different people -- 2. 'A court of justice and not a court of law!': courts and justice in the services -- 3. 'Law makes crime': what difference does war makes? -- 4. 'The biggest thieves in the world': service personnel and property crime -- 5. 'I didn't like the officer [...] and I don't like you': crimes against the person -- 6. 'The unwritten law': servicemen and domestic violence -- 7. The shell-shock defence -- 8. Post-war crime waves? -- 9. Conscripts and professionals: beyond the world wars -- 10. 'I could have done other stuff': the return to professional services
Abstract:
The belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of peace, as brutalised veterans are released on to a labour market reorganising for peace, has a long pedigree in Britain. But it has rarely been examined critically and scarcely at all for the period of the two World Wars of the 20th century. This is a serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after these wars.
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