Processing Criminal Justice Between the Wars: Police, Courts and Institutional Adjustment

How did the institutions of the criminal justice system deal with the challenges and practical problems in its processes, both new and rediscovered, during the inter-war years? This book explores a relatively neglected but significant area of modern crime and criminal justice history: one beset by a range of issues such as police corruption, new scientific techniques, racecourse gangs, and public order disturbance such as street gambling and youth crime.

This book examines various aspects of the inter-war criminal justice system, including how the courts overcome practical, evidential and procedural problems; tensions between the police and the Director for Public Prosecution, how the police responded to scandal and controversy and the challenges presented by gang and public order offences.

This book will be of interest to all those interested in the development of the criminal justice system, as well as the history of courts and policing.