Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services Since 1914

by Clive Emsley

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 twentieth century. This is the first serious investigation of criminal offending...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199653712
• ISBN13: 9780199653713
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"