Research Catalog

Title

The Home Office / Sir Frank Newsam, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Author

Newsam, Frank, Sir.

Publication

London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1954.

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Details

Description

224 pages : 1 chart; 22 cm

Series Statement

New Whitehall series

Uniform Title

New Whitehall series

Subject

• Great Britain. Home Office
• Großbritannien Innenministerium
• 1900-1999
• Government > history
• Politics and government
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain

Contents

• I. The home secretary and his functions :1. The business of the home office : The range and variety of home office business ; Why the business of the home office is so varied ; Two primary duties of the home secretary ; The basic task of the home office -- 2. The office of the home secretary : Origin of the home secretary ; Creation of the home office in 1782 ; It's functions then ; Later changes: Duties transferred from or added to the home secretary -- II. The queen's peace : 1. Maintaining the queen's peace : What is the queen's peace ; The role of the home secretary ; Order and liberty ; Emergencies -- 2. Police administration : Introductory ; Organization of the police ; Statutory functions of the home secretary ; Non-statutory functions of the home secretary ; Some current problems ; The metropolitan police -- 3. The fire service : Development of the fire service ; The home office and local fire authorities ; Firemen and firewomen ; Training, research, and fire prevention -- 4. Civil defense : Development of the civil defense department ; The purpose of civil defense ; Civil defense planning ; Duties of the civil defense department ; The protection of the public -- 5. The children's department : The home secretary's responsibility for child care ; Local authorities and the children act ; Development since 1948: Boarding out ; Local authority children's homes ; Voluntary organizations and voluntary homes ; Training for child care work ; Children neglected in their own homes ; Adoption ; Emigration ; Juvenile delinquency : Juvenile courts ; Remand homes ; Approved schools ; Attendance centers ; Financial -- 6. Public well-being and public safety : Protective legislation and public services ; The explosives department ; Safety in cinemas and theatres ; Public entertainment and censorship ; Sunday entertainment ; Liquor licensing ; State management of the liquor trade ; Betting and lotteries ; Dangerous drugs and poisons ; Obscene publications ; Theatrical employers registration ; General responsibilities of the home secretary -- 7. The control of Athens : The need for controlling aliens ; Admission of aliens ; Aliens in this country ; Deportation ; The work of the aliens department
• 8. Nationality and naturalization : British nationality ; British nationality act, 1948 ; Naturalization ; Registration ; Renunciation and deprivation of citizenship ; Nationality and naturalization division of the home office -- III. The royal prerogative of mercy and the treatment of offenders : 1. The royal prerogative of mercy : Meaning of the prerogative of mercy ; Death sentences ; Insane and mentally abnormal prisoners: Medical enquiries ; Capital punishment and the law ; Life imprisonment ; Other uses of the prerogative ; References to the court of criminal appeal ; Payment of compensation ; Limitations of the prerogative ; Analogous and additional powers -- 2. The administration of justice :General scope of the home secretary's responsibilities ; The criminal law ; The criminal courts ; Powers in individual cases ; Broadmoor patients and mental defectives ; Extradition, fugitive offenders, and letter of request ; Prosecutions ; Coroners ; Criminal statistics ; Research ; Home office not a ministry of justice -- 3. The probation service : Purpose and use of probation ; Home office as central authority ; Local organization ; Probation officers and probation training ; Probation officers' other duties -- 4. The prison commission :The prison commissioners ; Functions of a prison ; Imprisonment as a legal punishment ; Prison development before the criminal justice act, 1948 ; Imprisonment today ; Persistent offenders ; Treatment of young offenders ; Administration and staff ; Visiting committees and boards of visitors ; Finance -- IV. Other functions of the home secretary : 1. Northern Ireland, the channel islands and the isle of man : Northern Ireland ; Dependencies of the crown ; The channel islands ; The isle of man -- 2. The international work of the home office : Scope of international work ; International conventions and treaties ; The united nations ; Social, narcotics and human rights commissions ; Other international work -- 3. The home secretary as residuary legatee : The Queen's pleasure ; Redress of grievances ; Regulation of working conditions ; Elections ; Private bills ; Byelaws ; Burials, consecration of burial grounds, cremation ; Summer time and calendar questions ; Protection of animals ; The cruelty to animals act, 1876 ; Wild birds' protection ; Charitable collections ; Taxicabs ; Fairs ; Private members' legislation ; Marriage guidance -- 4. Staffing, finance and common services : The home office in history ; The department today: establishment and organization division ; Finance ; Common services ; Conclusion.

LCCN

54004984

OCLC

• ocm01157760
• 1157760
• SCSB-772300

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library